Sentences with phrase «working stiff»

While all that might be reasonable to those who have money, for a working stiff making minimum wage, even if they are smart enough to be in the top 10 per cent of this business, it is almost impossible if they don't have the money to start out.

But I can tell you there isn't a working stiff in this world with children they love desperately, who wouldn't understand the reality of that situation and the conundrum Sadie must have been in to get that deal done.

Every working stiff needs a laugh and a boost on Friday - Eve morning (better known as Thursday morning) and we are no exception to that truth.

Best of all, he was a working stiff in the pay of Big Steam!

The husband comes home, a nice working stiff with spectacles but with the casual allure of downtown himself, for Larry Rivers plays him.

A stealth game where you play as Gary a poor working stiff trying to sneak into his office before he is spotted and fired for his chronic tardiness.

Katherine Belarmino and Romeo Belarmino are the authors of Travel the World, a travel blog for the everyday working stiff.

I find that hard to believe, and it certainly doesn't apply to the typical working stiff, like me.

I'll definitely check our the working stiff contest and consider the novel... as for the temperature in the e-book ocean — we'll keep you posted!

Working Stiff goes for laughs, while For Better, For Murder tugs at the heartstrings.In Working Stiff, set in Wisconsin, Mattie, a former nurse, has just started working as a coroner after finding her surgeon...

If the author wants to provide for his kin after is death, he can take up a life insurance policy like any other working stiff.

Suicidal working stiff, Lincoln Maxwell, gets transported to mystic Idalore where fate burdens him with its greatest weapon.

We have The Love - Haight Case Files by Jean Rabe and Don Bingle, Working Stiff: The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie, P.I. by Kevin J. Anderson, and For This Is Hell by Aaron Rosenberg and Steven Savile.

Brühl is the everyman, the working stiff, quietly in awe of his compatriot while also put off by Assange's frequent surges of ego.

Solid performances, and a sincere faith in the dignity of the average working stiff, save it from getting too preachy.

Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is a regular working stiff in a small town in Ohio.

Matt Damon plays the working stiff who decides to get small to live large, but comes to suspect that «downsizing,» as the voluntary procedure is called, may have been a big mistake.

In part, that's because of Keanu Reeves» blank take on a working stiff turned lawbreaker.

She married the rough - hewn Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), had two sons with him, and then they divorced; now Ginger is in a relationship with Chili (Bobby Cannavale), another blue - collar working stiff, and works in a supermarket while raising her two boys in a small - ish apartment.

As secretary to a powerful agent (Steve Carrell), Vonnie appears effervescent, sassy and knowing — a bohemian free spirit, slumming it as a working stiff.

Honest working stiff Denzel Washington finds himself out of a job and desperate for money, so he accepts a job locating a young woman for a shady stranger.

The millionaire class has lots of representatives in government and this working stiff clown thinks they're going to give him a seat at the table.

Feel free to substitute a regular working stiff of a teenager in there.

He already has a rep for working stiff.

The main target user for this calculator is people between the age of 55 - 70 who have $ 300K - $ 1 million to invest but if you are like me, an average working stiff, a calculator like this won't be helpful.

Darren Weeks was an ordinary «working stiff» with a passion for investing.

If the 8,000 Canadians who received stock options as part of incomes over $ 250,000 paid taxes on this money at the same rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down year for options.

Tremblay stormed out, and Coutu realized that he had to offer better service and deals to the working stiffs.

Such sentiments may sound standard to the working stiffs of the world, but the modern can't - miss professional athlete, in many cases, seems intent on following the flashy model set forth by Sanders, the Dallas Cowboys» conspicuous - consumer cornerback.

Philadelphia's second goal resulted from a collaborative effort by two more working stiffs, Centers Orest Kindrachuk and Bill Clement.

Riggo and Theismann, gone but not forgotten — not by their teammates, not by their fans, not by the working stiffs of the Washington press.

I never thought our government would borrow billions more from the Chinese to hand over t the donor class and then tell the working class you need to do without medicare, healthcare, and Social Security because our country just can not afford those for you working stiffs anymore.

But it's the fat raises that stick out and don't look good to average working stiffs.

In fact, people undergoing physiotherapy use swimming as a primary form of exercise to work stiff muscles, loosen joints and restore their overall range of motion and flexibility, which are often lost due to a long period of stagnation from rest.

He began acting on and writing for a number of television series, and he got his first big break co-starring with old friend Jim Belushi on the sitcom Working Stiffs (1979).

It begins with an apparent non sequitur, as working stiffs Hadley (Richard Jenkins) and Sitterson (Bradley Whitford) discuss babyproofing in an anonymous office building.

As two aging working stiffs share a coffee break, one imagines himself into a better time and place, and the soundtrack swells to accommodate the fantasy.

The follow - up to the 2011 hit comedy «Horrible Bosses» reunites Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as everyone's favorite working stiffs: Nick, Dale and Kurt.

«Tower Heist» is a modern comic fable about working stiffs (the serving class of a cushy NYC high - rise) stung by Wall Street excesses (the penthouse billionaire, the lost pension fund) trying to stick it to «the man» in some soul - satisfying ways.

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

The follow - up to the 2011 hit comedy Horrible Bosses reunites Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as everyone's favorite working stiffs.

His new «Extract» is similar, except the scene has moved from white collar to blue, and the sympathies tilt ever so slightly from working stiffs to management.

The makeup effects are tremendous, and Calfa and especially Karen are hilarious as working stiffs (no pun intended) who end up fighting for their lives.

After a Bernie Madoff type of scam sucks the pensions of hundreds of working stiffs dry, they aim to get even.

Will didn't mention that we're holding a flash fiction contest over at Working Stiffs.

Scientists are human beings, and for every paradigm - breaking genius there are at least 10,000 working stiffs.

You and I however, as regular working stiffs, would not be as lucky.You can read what I think about the Conan NBC departure at NBC.

What to look for, how to speak to uppity business people, how to talk to working stiffs in the shops and the restaurants along the street.

Here in Canada we encourage property ownership, the more the better, but we have to watch out that the ownership of property, especially commercial property, is not in the hands of just a few wealthy people and corporations instead of ordinary working stiffs.

Not exact matches

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.