The phrase
"to sweep the floor" means to clean it by moving a broom across it to collect dirt, dust, and any other debris.
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Using a board that is too small or too advanced for your abilities is like trying to
sweep the floor with a banana.
She wrote her first poem the next day, on the job,
between sweeping the floor and counting out the change in the register before we opened the door.
And if you've
never swept a floor, you might not understand the satisfaction of having every object in its place, neat and tidy and easily found.
This dress used to be a full length gown with
ruffles sweeping the floor and I thought it was sad how it spent its days hanging in my closet with no parties to attend.
You don't need colors to impress, you only need its stripe long skirt to swing nicely and
sweep the floor as you stand high on your cigarette high heels.
Whether he's mimicking the act of
sweeping the floor in agile grace or responding to verbal statements of cultural criticism in gliding movement, Linder's paid - by - the - hour choreography goes beyond music and ultimately engages choreography and language as a critical reflection of the relationship between economic labor and social conditions.
During the Depression he worked his way through college
by sweeping floors for 25 cents an hour.
First, as a woman of my height, I have been yearning for a maxi dress that
sweeps the floor for about as long as they have been in style.
As newlyweds, you would probably say thank you if your husband
swept the floor after dinner while you loaded the dishwasher.
My connection is my grandfather, Frank Jakee, who
started sweeping floors there before World War I, then served in the U.S. Navy, then returned to the plant and worked there through the 1950s.
It also makes it easier to jump right in and
sweep the floor when there isn't a ton of stuff piled on it.
It's feeling powerful and alive and purposeful while also feeling like you can't believe you have to
sweep these floors AGAIN.
After 15 years of working in the natural and organic grain and food ingredient business doing every job there is
from sweeping the floor to being general manager of entire operations, I decided that it was time to make a difference in a segment of the marketplace that needs some help.
It is so refreshing to have a
freshly swept floor... but a neat and tidy closet, a freezer I'm not afraid to open, googly eyes with a proper home!
There may be slight pH changes in your digestive system and shifts in the bacterial population, and initially there will be the regular garbage that needs shifting out of your bowel, it's a bit
like sweeping a floor that has not been cleaned thoroughly for many years.
They pick up trash, remove debris and
sweep floors along with ensuring that restrooms are clean and even perform odd jobs for staff.
SolidWood and TechWood Vacuum or
sweep your floor regularly with a soft - bristled attachment or broom, especially in high - traffic areas.
GALLOWAY: You were
working sweeping floors in South Central L.A., you were doing menial jobs working at a gas station.
He has
also swept floors and run tests in a chemical laboratory, the Pope said, in revelations sure to boost his image as a «pope of the people.»
When he had a Saturday or Sunday off, he didn't want to spend those precious
hours sweeping floors or vacuuming blinds — he wanted some time off.
There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black
habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.
In the early 1980s, Jack, who had started with the business in 1976 by
sweeping floors during summer college breaks, told his mother that she owned a dinosaur.
The
Cavs swept the floor with the Celtics and to much surprise, the good players that they traded for were good.
Here are some ideas for age appropriate chores for toddlers: Packing away toys Putting clothes in wash
basket Sweeping the floor Setting the table for meals Clearing the...
Toluwani Eniola writes about new mothers detained by hospital authorities for their inability to settle
bills Sweeping the floor of the female ward at the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Chinyere Nlemuwa cut the picture of a cleaner in the hospital.
Willing to work his way up, Scrappy takes a
position sweeping the floor at a fledgling beauty parlor owned by a Palestinian (Emmanuelle Chriqui) who has no idea that her new employee is an AWOL Mossad agent.
Lingering death scenes, honourable gentlemen with puffed out chests, a little girl in
rags sweeping the floor; to say Les Misérables takes itself very, very seriously is an understatement.
A couple of days ago I caught myself trying to do five things at once: bake scones for a family visit (English scones, the kind you eat with jam) complete the fancy beading on a princess outfit for a teddy
bear sweep the floor, put away the washing, quickly toddler - proof my living area write my -LSB-...]