Sentences with phrase «shoots under my fingernails»

If real life were this way all the time, it would put the guys who stick bamboo shoots under fingernails out of business.

Though every politician complains about the burdens of fundraising — like «putting bamboo shoots under my fingernails,» Rep. John Larson told the Huffington Post — Congress could, if it wanted, move to a system of real public financing for elections.