Sentences with phrase «short end of the stick»

The View From Up North: Female In - House Counsel Get Short End Of Stick Compared To Male Counterparts

Current Microsoft president Steve Ballmer and former Apple CEO John Scully also get short ends of the stick, coming across as an oaf and a traitor, respectively.

Lawyers get the short end of the stick.

And, while in some cases, there's nothing wrong with a two - way street, when that's the only way you build your network, it's a sure thing that one day you'll wake up at the short end of the stick.

«A 1986 - style approach that promises upfront rate cuts to the wealthy is almost guaranteed to give middle - income earners the short end of the stick,» said Schumer, the third most senior Democrat in the Senate.

With usage limits low and woeful upload speeds, both individual Canadians and businesses are looking like they're going to once again get the short end of the stick when it comes to migrating to the cloud.

They seem to be left holding the short end of the stick — and deservedly so.

Here's a news flash for them: You always had the short end of the stick.

There was a flurry of interest recently in a lawsuit launched by some Facebook shareholders, who apparently believe that they got the short end of the stick in the company's recent share restructuring.

«Merchants are at the short end of the stick,» says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

Insurance companies, gasoline suppliers and car dealerships will get the short end of the stick.

After all, thinking you're getting the short end of the stick can be a real bummer.

However, after the company's profitable IPO, in which shareholders made millions, Sanders began to feel as though he got the short end of the stick.

The July policy document is packed with pie charts allegedly showing B.C. gets the short end of the stick.

Most regular joes, though, end up with the short end of the stick.

Craft acknowledged Wynne's argument that the Canadian and U.S. economies are among the most closely «intertwined» in the world, but insisted that Americans are on «the short end of the stick» in many trade deals, including NAFTA.

Savers are getting the short end of the stick while it remains a borrower's paradise thanks to low inflation and the Federal Reserve's refusal to raise interest rates.

It turned out to be the short end of the stick.

Twitter shareholders are painfully aware of the fact that Twitter has often come out with the short end of the stick competing...

When you're wearing lots of hats, the temptation to procrastinate by working is high, and it's usually creative priorities and projects that wind up getting the short end of the stick.

Since so few other people take care to mind the concrete details of EQUAL treatment, it's usually left to those of us who would continually get the short end of the stick to point these things out.

In the Bible, it is the Godly men and women who always seem to be getting the short end of the stick.

Looks like the millions of people that lived throughout the Americas from the time of Jesus» death till the late 1400's kinda got the short end of the stick... You know, the whole not accepting Jesus before they died so they burn in hell for eternity part?

If you work hard, if you are responsible with your money, if you are honest at work, it seems that you are the one who gets the short end of the stick.

It does seem like a fantastically stupid double standard for men to think and get emotional and still have the right to lead the Church but women get the short end of the stick.

You got the short end of the stick, my foolish friends.

Us moms always seem to get the short end of the stick, wouldn't you agree?

Since my inability to properly save documents gave you the short end of the stick this morning, I figured I'd share a few things I found interesting / humorous / useful / downright delicious.

I, of course, gave him a lecture about how affordable prices mean someone, somewhere, is getting the short end of the stick.

While you may preach that everyone gets the same amount of love, and equal attention is paid to all three children, really the middle child always gets the short end of the stick — or so I've heard.

Only the Eagles could've got the short end of the stick by a rule that turns athletic plays into non-touchdowns.

It's too bad that anyone had to drop the game between Team Abrahamson and Team Rosenberg on Monday Night and unfortunately for Team Rosenberg they got the short end of the stick.

For Team Watts, I'd be lying if I said I did nt feel bad for these guys... It was a questionable call at the end that could have been called on either team and they came up with the short end of the stick..

They went head to head with Team Sammy in Hoops and came out with the short end of the stick.

Came up with the short end of the stick once again on Sunday, but this was the first time they had a true line - up out there and it made a world of difference.

However, they lost last Week to # 4 Team Schwartz and essentially someone had to get the short end of the stick.

Team Cruse really got the short end of the stick here in terms of matchups..

I don't think we get the short end of the stick.

Even though they mentioned that they don't like calling out refs, they believed that the ball was dropped when it came to calling the game fairly, even if it wasn't the Seahawks that ended up getting the short end of the stick.

Unfortunately for the 49ers, they may have gotten the short end of the stick on officiating at the end of the game.

Jenson Button slipped out of F1 at the end of 2016 as he got the short end of the stick in McLaren's «innovative three - driver strategy» and although he could theoretically return with McLaren in 2018, everyone has pretty much accepted that he's retired.

He got the short end of the stick through no fault of his with Canelo but at some point he has to realize he can't have his cake and eat it too.

Though Debuchy may feel like he got the short end of the stick from Wenger, it's hard to blame the Arsenal boss for what happened.

You have to know that we are a society in which literacy and intelligence are inseparable and yet, by design, the intermingling demographic of poor and black receive the short end of the stick.

they can't admit that yet again PRO crapped the proverbial bed, nor that PTFC and Paulson got the short end of the stick yet again.

Nigeria perhaps got the short end of the stick as they finished on 11 points and still failed to qualify, but they took one out of a possible six points against first placed Guinea.

They were # 3 Seed in the deepest League we've ever had and without a doubt drew the short end of the stick when the Bracket was finalized.