Sentences with phrase «putting feet»

A five - time Olympic champion on the bike, you'd be excused for expecting Sir Bradley Wiggins to be putting his feet up post-retirement.

If Welbeck never became available then nothing was going to happen on deadline night, probably explaining why he was happy putting his feet up like every other manager who had no plans for that day — it was the supporters panicking not him.

I spot a woman walking around in her shoes and putting her feet up on the padded climbing structures calling for her kids who have absolutely no interest in acknowledging her.

The lure of putting my feet up with a large mug of peppermint tea, some dark chocolate, and calling it a day, was pretty strong, but knowing that my Mum would be anticipating a meal on her return dragged me to the kitchen...

«Things as simple as putting your feet on the table, throwing down your bag and arriving late all give others the impression that you are more powerful,» PsyBlog recently reported, citing research out of the University of Amsterdam.

You might never exercise when you come home from the office because part of your daily routine involves opening the mail on the couch, which leads to putting your feet up, which leads to watching two hours of television instead of putting on your sneakers and going for a run.

After the event, California put its foot down and barred Uber from further self - driving tests.

Says McConnell's longtime friend Bill Stone, who is a party regular in Louisville: «Mitch has always been a believer in knocking them out, and when they're down, putting your foot on their throat and not letting them up.

You're unlikely to put your foot down for a lot of things.

However, if you're like me, you have definitely put your foot in your mouth a time or two saying the wrong thing at the absolute worst moment.

Before she could really put her foot in her mouth, Greenspan graciously interrupted and said, «No, Ma'am, I am saying that without tax cuts the surplus will be $ 500 billion in ONE YEAR.

I'm not going to quote cars, because I'll put my foot in it.

«There were a lot of people who put their foot down to be sure [Matt] was isolated when he was having a bad day,» says former HR chief Melinda Wolfe, who left in September for a similar role at Pearson.

You may pride yourself on «shooting from the hip» or «telling it like it is» but such spontaneous remarks during a media interview usually come across in print and video as «putting your foot in your mouth» and subsequently «shooting yourself in the foot.»

Even if the FDA puts its foot down, «companies are always going to be able to find a new synonym or creative marketing term» that doesn't run afoul of regulations, says Margaret Pollan, an assistant professor of environmental food law at Pace Law School.

I interviewed Hassle Free's founder Jim Vagonis recently and he summed up its value proposition succinctly: «When a busy couple gets home at night, they want to put their feet up and enjoy their home.

How much weight the report will carry is unclear, but for now Google is putting its foot down on being forgotten.

Singer Elton John says he wants «to put his foot in the water» to change the situation of LGBT people in Russia.

Just don't put both feet into the pond until you know how deep the water is.

But at some point, I've learned, you have to put your foot down.

«I knew it wouldn't work if I just put my foot down and said, «This is what we're going to do,» he says.

To determine the effect of small acts of rule breaking on perceptions of power, the research team conducted a series of experiments that asked volunteers to evaluate the personal power of people in imagined or videotaped situations (a visitor to an office who helps himself to coffee or a cafe patron who puts a foot up on a chair, for example) and in role plays.

The more I learned about the real Marcia Clark, not the two dimensional cardboard cutout I saw in the news, but the complicated, whip - smart giant - hearted mother of two, who woke up every day, put both feet on the floor and dedicated herself to righting an unconciscable wrong, the loss of two innocents Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown, the more I had to recognize that I, along with the rest of the world, had been superficial and careless in my judgment, and I'm here today to tell you I'm sorry,» Paulson said to Clark while onstage.

Trump personally may not care much for the nuts and bolts of cyber security, but his staff needs to put their feet down, and keep locking down their electronic hygeine.

«But you have to stand for something, so I just put my foot down and said enough is enough.»

I've met with large numbers who haven't put their foot on the lowest rung of their potential yet.

If you feel as if you've been stuck at a traffic light these past few years, just waiting to put your foot on the accelerator, you can breathe a sigh of relief because the light may have just turned green.

Put your feet up whilst your furry friend takes care of the entertainment this Christmas.

So put your feet up and grab yourself some serious May Bank Holiday deals.

Then you gradually store more of your wealth in bonds — which are less apt to lose half their value in the blink of an eye — reducing the chance of your gravy train being wrecked just as you were about to put your feet up.

«Unfortunately, the easiest trades of the year have been based on the leader of the free world and other people in his administration putting their foot in their mouths without understanding cause and effect as it relates to global markets.»

«It's a shame we keep having these conversations when we should just put our foot down, because there shouldn't be an argument...

Welcome to the great American tradition of putting your foot in your piehole...

I'm not proposing that we put our feet up and opt out of life and Christian service.

So when you use your post as a bashing tool against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more value then empty, silly ranting.

Don't ya think a just God should have put His foot down in that???»

Too nice to argue and too weak to put their foot down, they spoilt their offspring with the kind of good - natured generosity and blind tolerance that is far more harmful than parsimony and even cruelty.

Don't ya think a just God should have put His foot down in that??? I think your assertion here is that an all - powerful God can not be all - powerful if He has emotions.

He needs to put his foot down and veto the tea baggers.

At some point, a group probably needs to put their foot down and say, «This is what we believe.

He sent them out to minister, let them get in fights with the Pharisees, let Peter put his foot in his mouth and more.

A friendship that has depth, I want someone to sit on my couch, put their feet up and drink coffee like they belong.

The priest might put his foot down and ban the use of hymns that contain doctrinal errors: the one where Jesus is reported as saying «I am with you in this bread and wine» for example.

We must often put our feet in the shoes of the martyrs but we must realize that we are not martyrs; we most often come closer to being the torturers and the persecutors, because we often fail to understand and what we do not understand we would like to hate and destroy.

Neil Armstrong had no such doubt; he was certain that when he put his foot down on the moon it was a giant step forward for humankind.

before you bash, and please, read the bible or at least glance at it, before putting your foot in your mouths and spewing about things you do NOT know... at least try to sound INTELLIGENT in your anti-bible, anit - religion anti-Jesus, Anti-God discourse..

Even when Romney is isn't putting his foot in his mouth, he is still terrible at explaining how the right - leaning health care reforms he allegedly favors would improve anybody's life.

Friends get invited over for dinner; they put their feet up and watch the game.

I slipped off my shoes and put my feet up on the dash.

So finally I had to put my foot down and say «No.»