Sentences with phrase «to cut someone down to size»

Now you need to grab one of your side rails and cut it down to size for the front skirt of your bench.

Were these available in your local hardware store or did you buy the thin wood then cut these down to size?

There are a ton of exchanges you could cut down to size just by being more clear about what should happen.

The film, or indeed the script, could have done with some serious cutting down to size.

But you can be cut down to size just as easily.

A couple of years of low or no returns may be offset by later years with much larger returns with traditional investing through mutual funds or index funds, but those banner years are cut down to size in an indexed universal life policy as a trade off for protecting your downside with a flat return on down years.

The Lord's question to Job when cutting him down to size was, «Where wert thou when I laid the foundations of the Earth?»

Larger premade fabric pieces, like tablecloths and bedsheets will probably also need cut down to size.

The series is known for being random and accessible, so even power players will be cut down to size if they lose favor with the RNG gods.

If we are too secure in a sheltered joy, the psalmist can quickly cut us down to size.

Contraband is, in fact, the American remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavik - Rotterdam, and while I haven't seen that film to know for sure, the script for this American version (adapted by Aaron Guzikowski) tries to do too much with some of the subplots and supporting characters — which would've been more of a pronounced distraction if director Baltasar Kormakur (who produced the Icelandic version) and his team of editors hadn't cut them down to size.

An abandoned parking meter in Baltimore gets cut down to size and now accepts bikes instead of quarters.

Reputations are too frequently made when pygmies stand on the shoulders of giants and when iconic and sometimes heroic figures are symbolically cut down to size....

However, knowing that what we CAN know is certainly limited does cut us down to size somewhat and brings us face to face with mystery and the grandeur and glory of God.

And I suppose that Mbpape's odds for joining Arsenal will be cut down to size soon, especially after Pires is reported to be spreading rumours that Wenger is going to sign him... But at the end of his statement he said that the valuation of the player is a stumbling block.??

Diaper Changing Mat from repurposed hand towel Materials 1 old hand towel or large towel cut down to the size you want (darker colors work well here considering the staining that will inevitably...

How about cutting them down to size?

Amidst all the talk of «going for growth», Lib Dem «hate taxes on the rich», and difficult decisions for Ministers having to reduce their budgets, there is one large, flabby area of government which has been insufficiently tackled, but which could be cut down to size easily, popularly, and with huge benefits for society: the equalities sector.

While it may be hard to get a store with the exact measurements you are looking for, that should not bother you because you can cut them down to size once you get home.

First she takes off her clothes, and after spreading her legs, Dominika figuratively cuts him down to size by obsessively fixating on his flaccid member — a power play that tells you everything you need to know about this fiercest of Red Sparrows.

The act of codification that is enshrined in the International Declaration of Human Rights has ensured that the unspeakable has been cut down to size at the very moment that...

North America is still on top, but seriously cut down to size.

Think of the 6.4 x 2.4 x 1.9 - inch Osmo Mobile as a selfie stick cut down to size.

With ready - to - install options at your local hardware store, you can easily apply crown moulding or have wall trim cut down to size (sometimes for just a few dollars per foot) to frame out your walls and add instant character to your space.

«We just got broadloom cut down to size — it's half the cost of an actual wool rug,» says Jamie.

We used two 1» x4» x12» common pine boards for the shelf supports and 3 sheets of 1/2» x2» x4» Medium Density Fiberboard (cut down to size for our closet) for the shelves.

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees and line the bottom with a sheet of parchment (I do this by tracing the bottom of the cake pan onto the parchment paper and then cutting it down to size).

The rest is largely gratuitous unless something expensive needs cutting down to size.

You've probably heard me say that before but it still fascinates me how even the hardest of warriors can be cut down to size if they're arrogant or ill - informed.

Unfortunately, she was cut down to size by years of disappointment, and by her first love — a Hollywood director.

But the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President, Richard Fisher, has been consistent and vocal in his belief that our economy will not reach its full potential until those bloated financial institutions are cut down to size.

Not only must the professor / protagonist / authority figure be cut down to size; the great John Donne, to whose work Vivian has devoted her life, must be cut down as well.

We all thank God for the missionaries even when we cut them down to size as fallible human beings.

We have cut him down to size.

To make matters worse, I had failed to measure the metal roofing, and so when I went to screw the metal roofing pieces to the plywood, the pieces were too long, and so I had to get out the tin snips and cut them down to size.

It cuts us down to size.»

Through humor, we can ridicule these idols of greed or indulgence or legalism, cut them down to size and expose them for what they are: empty promises, impotent objects of our worship.

Let Jesus show in these churches we have built for him then — not just Jesus as we cut him down to size in our sermons and hymns and stained - glass windows, but Jesus as he sat there among his friends while with wine on his breath and crumbs in his beard and his heart in his mouth he spoke about his death and ours in words that even the nine - year - old angel would have understood.

BUT, I am a little bummed because, yes its cut down to size for one... but I can half or 1/4 any recipe.

He was adapting to life as a big man on campus when track season rolled around and Venegas tried to cut him down to size.

Just the same, they keep his ego in check with gags that have cut him down to size.

This was to have been the day, many observers believed, that Culpepper would be cut down to size, the day that Minnesota coach and vice president of football operations Dennis Green would regret not re-signing veteran Jeff George to make one last Super Bowl push with a veteran team.

We used a roll of adhesive magnetic strip which we cut down to size and then applied to each bottle top.

The kids can add patterns and color all over the page and then small sections can be cut down to size.

Eventually these drawings will be cut down to size to fit inside the bottle tops, so there are two ways to go about making the artwork.

Although it upsets you to hear taunts escape your child's lips, keep your cool and resist the urge to cut her down to size.