Sentences with phrase «to get that monkey off one's back»
Tottenham Hotspur will be confident after coming from two down to defeat Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday, and having finally got the monkey off their back of not winning away at the «Big Four» teams of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea in 68 attempts, the Reds will be in for a hard match.
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Nice to get the monkey off the back for Wenger, that's about it.
The Titans hadn't beaten the Colts since 2011 either, so getting that monkey off their back was nice.
Surely now Arsenal are back at home where we had won 15 games in a row before the Man United debacle, and with the benefit of playing a very weak Newcastle side that has managed just one point from their last 8 League games, is the perfect opportunity to get this monkey off their backs before we welcome Liverpool to the Emirates next week....
I remember Young getting the monkey off his back.
Still, despite getting that monkey off their backs, the Eagles only earned a NorCal final showdown with the 800 - pound gorilla that was Deer Valley.
Lydia Ko, in 2015 after two long years as a professional, finally got the monkey off her back when, at 17, she became the youngest player of either gender to win her first major.
Olivier Giroud got the monkey off his back by scoring his first goal in an Arsenal shirt, and there were impressive displays all around.
Oh god how much we need to beat them convincingly to finally get that monkey off our back!
They could have given up but refused to do so and got the monkey off their backs..
we get that monkey off our back this season.
How about we WIN tonight, get that monkey off our back and storm into the playoffs!
Having proved their doubters wrong thus far, the Braves will soon set about trying to get another monkey off their backs: Their 12 straight postseason appearances have produced but one world championship, and that was nine years ago.
But getting that monkey off their back was more a victory for the fans and Brooklyn than for management, which already had plans to remove critical pieces of that squad.
It is a very difficult time for Tottenham at the moment, with Real Madrid and Liverpool to come there over the next few weeks, and a trip to Man Utd, so it was imperative that they won, got that monkey off their backs and picked up the three points.
The Portuguese needs to get the monkey off his back and what better way to do it than at a ground where he is arguably hated the most and against a manager he has historically had the beating of.
This year the race is in May instead of late summer, so perhaps that will bring a change of fortune and I can get that monkey off my back.
«Ron and I are both looking to get the monkey off our back,» said O'Connell.
«I ask buyers who are overly frenzied if they need to take a couple weeks off of looking at houses to get the monkeys off their backs, and then go back at it again.