Sentences with phrase «sucking chest wound»

It's putting a band - aid on a sucking chest wound.

For example, if we are examining a gun shot wound and zoom in too closely to look at the genetic makeup of the victim, we will miss the sucking chest wound that is obviously killing our patient.

Specifically, the call for significant reform is likely to fall hardest on Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who responded to Silver's arrest in January with a five - point ultimatum that was regarded by ethics advocates as a Band - Aid on a sucking chest wound.

To see it as the director's response to his detractors is simplistic, to be sure, and given that other filmmakers» marches to rhetorical cavalries (Todd Solondz's Storytelling, Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things) are so obviously band - aids applied to sucking chest wounds, it's not a flattering analysis, either.

«We can't put Band - Aids on sucking chest wounds,» says Matthew Malone, the district's chief of secondary reform.

Not exact matches

It feels like the breath is being sucked out of my chest, as if I'd had the wind knocked out of me, and I just have no way to get it back.

If the injury is to the chest, listen closely for sounds of air sucking near the wound.