Sentences with phrase «rubes out»

He obviously can recognize there are a bunch of rubes out there just asking to be fleeced, and he's there with the shears.

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While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

Why not go out and get a real job that does not require selling snake oil to the rubes?

Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the Naturalis historia8 (perhaps the first encyclopedia in history), which in fact he mentions in «Funes the Memorious»: Funes asks the narrator (Borges) for any Latin text, and Borges obliges with volume VII of Pliny's encyclopedia and Quicherat's Thesaurus, just so the rube will be rudely disappointed upon finding out that one can not learn such a complicated language using only a book and a dictionary.

As if that Rube Goldbergian feat weren't enough, Wong and his colleagues also showed that by adding additional recombinases together with different target strands, they could build a wide variety of circuits, each designed to carry out a different logical operation.

First with the machinations of talking the rube with the car in question into letting them take it out alone, and second, when Stuntman Mike with a different car, but the same hood ornament, shows up to make this a day the ladies will never forget.

In his latest venture, «Logan Lucky,» Soderbergh, who came out of retirement to helm the film, plays on our stereotypical perceptions of West Virginians as rubes and rednecks to create an enjoyable and amusing heist yarn that upends your expectations.

«We have made a Rube Goldberg invention out of the funding model for public education,» said Horn.

Now, no, I'm not a rube who can't back up a car, but the rear view isn't the best out of the hatch, so a camera would be a welcome addition.

The game features Rube Goldberg machines with puzzles designed and optimised specifically for VR, and if you can't quite work out to do there is a rather grumpy robot to offer advice.

Imagine a Rube Goldberg steeped not in engineering but in Jung, or Klee's twittering machine left out in the rain.

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

Some people see alarmist theory as a kind of Rube Goldberg Machine, that, no matter how carefully thought out, is just too weak at too many points to rely on.

The law, like literature, was Hemingway's iceberg: the smallest rule was just the hint of a giant machination, a Rube Goldberg machine that spat out rights and evidentiary rules and administrative regulations.