Sentences with phrase «sticking out of both ends»

There's nothing more annoying than cords sticking out of both ends of the phone and this gets around that problem.

Not exact matches

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

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...

Russia could pull out of the OPEC oil production cut deal before the end of 2018 — or right after — as it has no obligation to stick with it, Iran's Energy Minister, Bijan Continue Reading

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

Plenty of studies warn against this, including one that shows that missing out on just 10 of the best days in the stock market over 160,000 daily returns in 15 markets around the world can cause you to end up with about half of what you would have earned if you had stuck with an index fund over time.

And if Trump sticks to his campaign promises, his administration may very well end up swimming in red ink: according to reputable estimates, if carried out, Trump's spending and tax plans, including his plans for infrastructure spending and wall - building, and his promise to retain some of the most expensive parts of Obamacare, will boost government borrowing by roughly a third within a decade, and could double it by 2036.

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.

and if that's the case then why have I seen posts with proper grammar and punctuation with not even one reply, I think you need to get that stick out of your rear end.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

End Religion summed him perfectly with these lines:... «Since you do not recognize these facts, you are stuck thinking like a child and basically planting a flag of victory over pointing out that», bananas are yellow therefore yellow crayons must taste like fruit»»...

Of the dozen or so friends who were online at 9 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving — most of them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piOf the dozen or so friends who were online at 9 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving — most of them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piof them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piof my pie.

The chimpanzee using a stick to get eggs from an anthill, a child figuring out how to tie her wagon to a tricycle, and the country politician developing a strategy to get elected to the legislature all illustrate the interweaving of imagining ends and inventing means.

just made these with one slight tweak — instead of putting cinnamon in with the salt at the end, i threw a cinnamon stick in with the cider while it reduced down and just pulled it out right before i added the rest of the ingredients — came out awesome!!

growing up observing both, i always set out to give hanukkah and christmas the attention and time they both deserve, but inevitably hanukkah gets the crap end of the stick.

Then hopefully you won't need this second article, but just in case we have a «Stuck Bundt: When a Bundt cake doesn't budge» to help get you out of sticky situations in one piece if you do end up with a particularly stubborn Bundt.

That said, if someone is severely allergic to dairy (to the casein / protein), they may not be able to eat butter (making butter is kind of like the same concept as separating an egg and a tiny trace of the white can be stuck to the yolk — they take out the protein and lactose parts of the dairy and end up with just the fat... but there could be traces).

Ramsey also had a little advice for Arsene Wenger, suggesting that the boss would do well to let him show what he can do in his preferred position as the box to box midfielder rather than sticking him out on the wing as he did towards the end of last season.

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

I read correspondent's columns that [say] «this is the end of Formula 1 for me, I'm out of it, I can't stick with this.»

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.

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.

I think it's unfair Ramsey getting stick that he is just because a ball got cut out at the top end of field.

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.

Once, coming out of the Boston end, he skated directly at two forecheckers and parted them as sweetly and magically as Moses parted the Red Sea, the puck clinging to his stick all the while.

The Brazilian's deal expires in the summer, meaning an exorbitant transfer fee would not be required, and with Brad Jones also out of contract at the end of the season, Liverpool are dearly in need of a new man between the sticks.

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.

The awesome, tireless end Bruce Smith made some big plays early, but he got little help, and as the game progressed, he began to stick out like Demi Moore in a crowd of nuns.

The only thing I would like to see more than Arsenal lifting the Premier League trophy at the end of the up and coming season (well maybe not the only thing but let's stick to football) would be for Jose Mourinho and Manchester United to flop like a souffle taken out of the oven too soon.

This trend should end with the 4 - 4 unranked Commodores coming to the Swamp, however the betting public is not overwhelmingly in favor of a Florida blowout, with just six out of ten bets sticking with the Gators to win by 14 points or more.

It just works out where the Team on the short end of the stick usually takes more from the Game than the Team with their hands raised..

Given the mess the club is in anyway, thanks to Wenger, Kroenke and Gazidis, it hardly matters, since we are stuck with Wenger, (unless we can force him out sooner) til end of next season.

Tiny correction Tim: six paragraphs from the end, I assume you mean «Aubameyang is basically out of the picture, playing on the wing...» (Incidentally, this is my concern with Wenger playing Auba and Laca in the same team: rather than going two up top, or maybe dropping Laca wide / deeper, looks like he's going to stick Auba on the wing, which for my money makes the least sense out of all his options.)

The latest news coming out of Ewood Park is that Blackburn's dubious owners, Venky's, have pledged their support to former first - team manager Steve Kean, who will now take charge of all managerial matters until the end of the season — Thinly veiled, no - one worth their salt, with a track record of working miracles, is currently available so it's your reputation we're willing to stick on the line in the meantime, so do well or you're out the door like the last unfortunate soul.

Both Liverpool and Celtic had to come through qualifiers to get to the main draw and out of the British clubs heading into duty for this year's competitions, it is Celtic and Tottenham who have really gotten the short end of the stick.

In a match that was played in Butler's rec center instead of Hinkle Fieldhouse, the Golden Eagles let a fourth set lead slip out of their hands and caught the short end of the stick in the fifth for their second conference loss.

I once saw this video on youtube from an anti-marriage advocate who said that statistically more than half of marriages fail (not including murder, suicides, and those who end up in institutions), and the other half that decides to stick it out makes a sport out of making each other miserable by fighting like Israelis vs. Palestinians.

And if you can stick it out to the end of the day, the short yet impressive grand finale pyrotechnic waterfall display (at the River Theatre) will inspire you to make all sorts of marvelous summertime plans.

We had a great time trying out The Stick Man Trail at Alice Holt earlier in the year, especially when we found the giant sculpture of Stick Man at the end.

Another problem babies can be born with that this article doesn't address is being tongue - tied (when the frenulum comes too close to the end of the tongue, so babies can't stick their tongues out far enough to latch correctly).

Once that first wash is done, I check to be sure the inserts have come out of any pocket diapers, and if there are any Velcro or Aplix closure diapers in the load, I double check that the fold - back tabs are still secured so I don't end up with a big chain of diapers stuck together.

It basically started out as one intervention cascading into a ball of interventions that led me to a transfer from a «Birth Center» birth to the hospital that ended in a non-emergency C - section for being stuck at 5 cm for hours and hours.

Yes, I lived closed enough to a hospital in the event of an emergency (which I ended up being transferred to in time to finish pushing out my very - stuck - in - my - vagina son).

Wrap the pipe cleaners around the tip of the popsicle stick so that three ends stick out on either side... those are your whiskers!

The Phil and Teds Sport has a new shoulder strap adjustment system that eliminates dangling ends sticking out of your stroller seat.

It would have been really helpful to include a photo showing both ENDS of the stick so we could figure out whether it's two hook dots per stick, or one hook and one loop.

It would dip the carrot we have dangling on the end of our proverbial stick into the dirt and then take a chunk out of it.

A friend of Dupre pointed out that in this case the woman gets the short end of the stick: «The woman always ends up the filthy, marked whore and he ends up coming back the savior of politics.»

I hope to do three things: first, look at the value and the challenges that immigration has brought and continues to bring to the UK; second, lay out where I think the Government is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick; and third, suggest some areas that Labour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migration.