Sentences with phrase «thumb at»

I wouldn't classify you with a black thumb at all.

Ask an out - of - work machinist from Jersey City today what really gets his goat, and he'll probably crook a thumb at a picture of Obama or predictably freak at footage of two men kissing on The Millionaire Matchmaker.

The sculpture is a giant hand in a thumbs - up gesture, and with a really long thumb at that, must mean that something, somewhere, is really good.

In Malaysia, however, people point with the whole fist and the thumb at the top indicating direction.

Put your thumb at the bottom of the stop and spread your hand over the backskull.

After a couple of minutes, Buford turned and jerked his thumb at us.

If you press on the belt with your thumb at the center of the long portion of the belt (between pulleys), you should get no more than about 1/2» inch of...

This film should have been an irreverent nose - thumb at everything and anything that smacks of convention.

I do not have a green thumb at all & this is my first year with an herb garden.

And then head northwest to check out Lana's green thumb at My New Happy in the evergreen state of Washington.

A great rule of thumb at the office: your shoes should be attached to your feet, front and back.

As a rule of thumb at least 100µg of the interaction partners should be available.

«That's our competition,» he says, jerking a thumb at Liston's supine form.

There is a general rule of thumb at the Capitol that complex budget negotiations — which usually involve a variety of non-fiscal items — blow up before a deal comes together.

To do this place your hand in a «C» position with your thumb at the top of your areola, and your pointer finger at the bottom of the areola.

My mom doesn't have a green thumb at all so the perfect gift for her would probably be a professional gardener for the day lol

Why do so many babies begin to suck their thumb at around two or three months of age?

The best way to start, though, is to picture a clock and have your thumb at a «10 o'clock» position as you release the ball.

In Oberstaufen I was taping five ankles and a thumb at one time.»

Rudy took Headrick's thumb at the joint.

The best rule of thumb at this point is to wait patiently — listen more and talk less.

There's a rule of thumb at fast food and quick - serve restaurants (QSR): a seven - second reduction in customer wait time results in an...

There's a rule of thumb at fast food and quick - serve restaurants (QSR): a seven - second reduction in customer wait time results in an average 1 percent gain in market share.

We are heading to that — red thumbs at the ready..

Harry thumbed at Val, one of his three adult kids.

Put your thumbs at the base of the nipple and push against your breast while pulling your thumbs away from each other.

Place your hands into prayer with your thumbs at your heart center.

The dimensions and weight allow you to hold the Tab and type on it with your thumbs at the same time, using two hands or even one hand.

So thumbs at the ready there's cash to grab.

Best advice seems to be to hold it firmly in one hand and strike a flat surface with a firm blow sufficient to crack the eggshell laterally, then to grasp it in two hands and with your thumbs at the crack, pull apart the two halves.

Regulators will be twiddling their thumbs at $ 5,000, $ 10,000, and beyond.

Not exact matches

At the risk of sounding creepy, I found myself absent - mindedly rubbing my thumb up and down its sides — the smooth curves just feel good to touch.

A good rule of thumb is to have at least 12 months of cash available to cover 100 % of your personal expenses.

A good rule of thumb is to treat everyone at a potential new employer like the CEO — you never know who you're talking to!

Admittedly, Ries and Trout offer some good lessons, but these are «rules of thumb» at best.

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

From faster - running computers, to devices that unlock at the touch of a thumb, this year's technological changes are guaranteed to have an impact.

«The Post» shows Graham herself evolve from a meek manager who enjoys the luxuries of power to one who finds her footing and thumbs her nose at it.

«They thumbed their nose at other people,» says Caldwell.

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

Sudden clouds have cooled the red rays of a setting sun, and the resulting grays cast soft shadows on the faces of students lazily thumbing their smartphones in the lobby of the library at St. Patrick's College Drumcondra.

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

So Rourke approached the Bolton, Mass., facility of Future Electronics, a parts distributor that had worked with Quartet back when other suppliers had thumbed their noses at the start - up's small volume of orders.

As always, this depends on the individual business, but a good rule of thumb is that you shouldn't take out more than you can pay down to zero at least once during the next 12 months.

«By shirking its responsibilities to pay its workers,» states the document, the «defendant is in essence thumbing its nose both at their workers and the taxing authorities of all states and the U.S. government.»

He essentially thumbed his nose at authorities, who were trying to hunt down a man whose last photo was a confident - looking young man, in a jacket and tie, hair brushed back from a broad forehead, taken decades earlier.

Right after I arrived at the N'Djamena airport, a uniformed officer rubbed his thumb and fingers together as I approached and said, «Money, money, money.»

At Toronto's Eaton Centre on a busy Friday afternoon, outlets for Bell, Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) and Telus are bustling with twitchy - thumbed consumers eyeing the multitude of mobile options.

A general rule of thumb is to have adequate funds for the necessary expenses of at least 3 to 6 months.

A good rule of thumb is to allow at least six months, and ideally more than a full year, between the changeover and the transaction.