Sentences with phrase «poke in the eye for»

«One, because of the quality of the player, and two because it would be a poke in the eye for Arsene Wenger.

I've been blessed with amazing eyesight, so I haven't had to wear glasses (I wouldn't be able to poke myself in the eye for contacts...) Your glasses match your outfit so well!

The form itself is a poke in the eye for Victorian values: The plots and songs uphold the conventional while making it seem clearly mad.

What a great poke in the eye for certain large corporations.

Thus, «partible paternity is a poke in the eye for the bargain hypothesis.»

Not exact matches

And in a thinly veiled poke in the eye of the FairSearch anti-Google brigade which convened in the autumn of 2010 in the wake of the ITA acquisition, Schmidt highlight that many of its members still account for a huge percentage of the online travel market in the US.

The white house is not up for grabs, you have the three stooges poking each other in the eye.

But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).

That would leave Arrieta for the Brewers, and you know they would enjoy poking the Cubs in the eye.

We all know that after an hour of him poking me in the eye asking if I am still up... I am not going to be ready for wine!

You am more likely be a) pinned to the bed b) elbowed c) have your windpipe cut off as they go for the target d) poked in the eye by whatever toy they won't let go of.

For many of the past year, the school food service has been POKED in the eye with bad labels: «School Food Service Causes Childhood Obesity» Really?

We would also like for me to go back to work eventually (when everyone is in preschool otherwise how would we afford THAT), because gosh I think staying home forever and not having a job might make me poke my own eyes out from reading too much internet gossip.

Had Snowden been a kidnapper or a pedophile or common criminal (the far more common case of extradition) then Snowden's options would be far more limited — but in this case, having such a safe way to poke Uncle Sam in the eye is a useful win - win for both Snowden and Correa.

Being Gallo, he couldn't resist poking the Common Council in the eye for playing partisan politics, using his newly acquired munificence as an example of the righteous path.

Since her adventures in 1996, online dating has become the best way to find love, certainly for anyone over the age of 25 with typical British social skills - that is, they'd rather poke themselves in the eye with a dirty stick than approach an attractive stranger on the train.

The Stooges had been poking each other in the eye for 22 years — and that's just for Columbia Pictures» theatrical shorts division — they'd been a comedy team for over three decades by that point.

The long - suffering matriarch has been trying to get the Stooges adopted for years with no success, presumably because they're wont to poke each other in the eye in front of prospective parents.

For horrifying sights, some familiar devices: a man in a gunny sack with holes poked through it for eyes and ears, and two females disguised with plastic masquerade doll's faces, employed as always to scare the bejesus out of us, the way clowns can frighten young childrFor horrifying sights, some familiar devices: a man in a gunny sack with holes poked through it for eyes and ears, and two females disguised with plastic masquerade doll's faces, employed as always to scare the bejesus out of us, the way clowns can frighten young childrfor eyes and ears, and two females disguised with plastic masquerade doll's faces, employed as always to scare the bejesus out of us, the way clowns can frighten young children.

It's of course even worse for right - hand drive cars, in that most people will be poking at glass with their non-dominant hand - meaning they have to take their eyes off the road to do so.

But in my opinion, there should be room for both: the authors who want to get out there and run a business and handsell their books, and the authors who would rather poke out their eyes with sharp sticks.

However, patients requiring diagnosis of an oral swelling often require sedation or anesthesia due to the challenges of obtaining a fine - needle aspirate in the conscious patient, and concerns for patient movement causing the needle to poke an undesired structure, such as the eye.

After diagnosing an ulcer, and in some cases addressing the underlying cause (for instance, a piece of grass or stray hair poking the eye), your veterinarian will use different medications depending on how deep the scratch is.

Originally created for the Wii U version of the game, this flying, little green critter zooms across the screen to do things that Rayman and crew can't, like cutting ropes to make new platforms, tickling enemies to expose their weakpoints, poking large foes in the eye to make them retreat, and more.

For over sixty years MAD has been introducing some of the most outrageous draftsmen to generations of young people hungry for absurd humor, extraordinary art and a poke in the eye of complacenFor over sixty years MAD has been introducing some of the most outrageous draftsmen to generations of young people hungry for absurd humor, extraordinary art and a poke in the eye of complacenfor absurd humor, extraordinary art and a poke in the eye of complacency.

and i've been meaning to ask questions about the ability to engineer emergence, but for now, i'll just poke my fingers in a few obvious eyes:)... Read More

It was hard to read where they were going, and I was as surprised as you were when, in March, the court poked the prime minister in the eye and ruled Nadon was ineligible for appointment to the coutnry's top court.

She remembered for no reason — recollections came to her more and more without prompting now; some other Gladys operating inside her, riffling through the cards in the catalogue, fixing on this or that moment in the way a crow's eye will be caught by a bauble — she remembered a house that they had occupied in which there was a fireplace in the bedroom and how Harold would complain at having to get out of bed on cold evenings to poke it and feed it, and how she had said to him, time and again, if he would sleep in the nude he was going to be cold.

However, for a governor who has an A + NRA rating, who would otherwise never think of poking his benefactor in the eye, who might like to ascend, unimpeded by controversy, to higher office, signing the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act was practically a profile in courage — a stunning break from the NRA.

Sunglasses are recommended for children when they are old enough to be able to put them on without poking themselves in the eyes.