Sentences with phrase «whistle past»

Next time you see that tree trunk full of goodies, it's perfectly fine to whistle past it if your plan advises your to stay away from that type of tree.

As does peeking through an open door and the reactions of the other character when bullets whistle past his face.

Let me tell you: watching crossbow bolts whistle past their target while you die and die again is a one - way ticket to Rageburg.

The traps whistle past in 15.8 seconds at 91.2 mph, a milestone that required 16.4 seconds in last year's model.

In Ekiti, noisy Ayodele Fayose, gubernatorial equivalent of the empty barrel that makes most noise, is so deafened by his own grating he won't even «hear» the wind of June 12 whistle past him.

He teed the ball up with one touch and his second saw the ball whistle past Carson's outstretched hand.

But I fear we literally do not know what we are talking about, do not know how to think through what we are proposing, and are whistling past graveyards of our own making.

Or maybe they do understand that at some level but in true delusional believer behavior they are in denial, whistling past their graveyard.

You're just whistling past the graveyard fool and you need everyone else to also believe it in order to validate your magic sky fairy tripe.

Sounding only a little bit like a man whistling past a graveyard, seven of the National League's finest teams spent a happy springtime assuring themselves and a nodding assortment of itinerant experts what a whale of a pennant race this was going to be.

Of course our deflected shots were going wide as well and an Alexis bullet header whistled past the post.

Whistling past the graveyard ya know

Waiting for his production to recover and pretending that he's a typical hitter who is just «getting unlucky» is nothing more than whistling past the graveyard.

Knick fans are entitled to hope he is just whistling past the graveyard

There were shades of Arjen Robben, too, as the classy defender cut inside onto his left foot and unleashed a powerful strike that whistled past the crossbar.

Nathan Redmond strikes a low shot from just outside of the area which whistles past the left post.

Steve Israel, who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after the debacle of 2010 for Democratic Party, tells me that the Democratic National Committee simply whistled past the graveyard.

Trainor, who may have been whistling past the cemetery, certainly does not lack confidence.

Methinks Hizzoner is whistling past the sinkhole on that one.

This solar wind whistles past the Earth at more than 500 kilometres per second and Winglee is designing his sail to ride this storm.

I wonder if it isn't a case of whistling past the graveyard.

Maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard or just obstinately refusing to accept evidence.

You hit the ball across the net, expecting a nice, easy return that you can volley back to your opponent — but your opponent has other ideas, and slices the ball down the line, whistling past your outstretched racket for a winner.

Even as Maass leaves us whistling past those never - speak - them issues of (shhh) talent and skill, writing, «You can change your class by yourself, right at home, one keystroke at a time,» there's surprise to be factored in.

That's important because the Big 5 has been whistling past the graveyard for a decade; trying to convince folks that e-books — and e-readers — are just a passing fad and citing their puny e-book sales as evidence... e-book sales that they have * deliberately * tanked with astronomically high retail prices.

There are a number of people working in the financial services industry who, in my humble and respectful opinion, are whistling past the graveyard when it comes setting return assumptions for their clients.

Run in the quiet of the canyon, the sound of the river flowing below you and the wind whistling past your ear is only muffled by the sound of your breathing and your feet on the ground.

Gears of War 3 has just whistled past the one million mark, and it reached that particular number quicker than any other Xbox 360 exclusive before it.

Angry Birds» success has been nothing less than phenomenal, so it's of no surprise to hear it's whistled past the two hundred million downloads mark.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally with her collections «East of Eden», «Strange Days» and «Whistling Past the Graveyard» — all the work from which was acquired by the legendary Damien Hirst and presented by A Gallery in London.

3 (Bob B) I think Andy is whistling past the graveyard.

«It's sad that the former Big Three are whistling past the graveyard so they can continue making gas guzzlers,» said Daniel Becker, director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming and Energy Program and frequent critic of the auto industry.

And that looks like an attempt at «whistling past the graveyard».

Josh seems to be whistling past the graveyard a bit.

Up to 50,000 clunkers have whistled past the automotive graveyard in Germany and found new life elsewhere, according to Ronald Schulze, an expert with the Association of Criminal Investigators, a professional group of police sleuths.

So far, however, even if it is a case of whistling past the graveyard, Americans are clearly more focused on other issues.»

Dismissing the Paris treaty as a paper tiger because its emission reduction and funding commitments are not «binding» under international law is whistling past the graveyard.

But I'd say that WebCite's argument (see their FAQ page) about copyright where an author has a cited page archived is a bit of whistling past the graveyard: it relies on the fact that Google and the Internet Archive cache web pages and on the U.S. case of Field vs Google.

In light of his earlier prophetic comments, his reaction that this feels «like whistling past the graveyard» should cause all but the most stubborn to at least pause.

We were all whistling past a graveyard.

Not exact matches

We've seen an acceleration of this sort of Old Guard Buys New Disruptor activity in the past couple years: Walmart / Jet; GM / Cruise; Unilever / Dollar Shave Club; GE / ServiceMax; Mars / Whistle; Albertsons / Plated.

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

Over the past few months, the whistle - blowing website, Recovering Grace, has given voice to 34 women who say there were sexually harassed or molested by Bill Gothard or someone in his conservative, homeschool - based ministry.

As per the rules of the bet, it has to be between kick off and final whistle, and can not be from taped pictures or past video, nor can it be said during half time.

Blues star striker scored the only goal of the game just four minutes before the half - time whistle reacting first to a goal mouth scramble to poke the ball past the line.

Until a couple of years ago the player deemed the heir to Dobler was Wisniewski, whose penchant for sustaining blocks up to the whistle — or past it — made him extremely unpopular with opponents.

But amazingly we were level before the whistle, with Alexis winning a free kick and Debuchy rising to beat Skrtel at the far post and head the ball past Jones.

But Kane consistently had Chiellini beaten from the first whistle, skipping past him on the dribble, making Chiellini read runs off the ball wrong, and continually pulling him out of position and left well outside the play with his hold - up play and distribution.

** Another point we've highlighted in the past is the added perception that in these must - win games for both teams, referees put their whistles down and let the players play.

We are in the next round, the cup is out the way for now, focus now turns back to the Premiership where it is hoped the poor starts are a thing of the past and Swansea will be a team that wont get a chance to even test us as we stamp our authority from the first whistle.