Sentences with phrase «snipe hunting»

«It was an exercise in snipe hunting,» said Krueger, who said the other lawmakers were only «pretending» that they were enacting reforms.

And there was the outhouse — humble, enduring edifice — where a bullying cousin once tried to spy on me and my sister, until my dad got wise to the boy and sent him on a mysterious snipe hunt.

Jim, when you post these claims and don't tell us where you're getting them, it's a snipe hunt — highly entertaining for the snipe, but not helpful for the conversation.

Not exact matches

He explains to us over his boiling porcupine soup that spears are wielded when hunting small land mammals, while blowpipes are used to stealthily snipe at birds or monkeys lounging on treetops.