And sooner or later you'll get your nuts nibbled or whatever it is you need nibbled.
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Growing pains nibbled at the fringes of Morgan Stanley's integrity.
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As yet the newcomers have merely nibbled around the edges.
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Relatives fetched the delicacies and she nibbled a few bites.
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Best enjoyed: Dipped in a frothy latte and nibbled slowly.
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A few eastern grey kangaroos appeared and nibbled the grass.
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Sure, if you nibbled a tiny bite or two, at most.
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He sliced off a knob of meat and nibbled on it.
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They are the dry, raw, nibbled-on manifestations of my anxiety.
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As she addressed a crowd onstage, Biden nibbled at her finger.
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I nibbled at a fry before I dug into my feast.
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But most of them nervously nibbled nearby with a shifting gaze.
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Guests nibbled on chicken piccata while discussing ways to reorient America's demographics.
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In blazers and shiny shoes, they took notes and carefully nibbled on sandwiches.
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But it's much more appealing than being nibbled on by worms and bacteria.
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REIMS, France — Jill Ellis sat on the sideline and nibbled on her finger.
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The deer nosed at the apple, then walked along and nibbled some leaves.
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As guests nibbled on decadent desserts, the two men contemplated an audacious plan.
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I nibbled on a piece that had been cut into a half-moon shape.
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" Gabelli revealed he "nibbled at a few because they were just thrown out mercilessly.
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"What if I only eat half," he said as he nibbled on little pieces.
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First, a couple of small catfish nibbled, then toothy piranhas hit the bait savagely.
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I bought a few and nibbled on them as I walked around that afternoon.
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A friend offered him a weed-laced gummy bear, and Chong nibbled off a corner.
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I'd told myself I'd only eat half, but I nibbled it down to the stick.
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"We love you Warren," shareholders shouted as Buffett nibbled a Dairy Queen vanilla orange bar.
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As we nibbled on crudité after the ceremony, Merria Dearman told me about her profession.
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But many people believe that candy corn, like Oreos, should be nibbled in a certain manner.
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His daughters played with dolls and nibbled on chocolate Easter eggs on the living room floor.
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At one point, Jadon pulled Anias' hand to his face and then nibbled on his brother's finger.
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She said she took two sips of the tea, nibbled the top of the muffin and left.
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Sopranos filled the restaurant with arpeggios as customers nibbled dumplings, each singer sidestepping busboys with steaming platters.
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She nibbled a celery stick, sipped tea and offered a parable that reflected her approach to music.
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"It's sort of like getting nibbled to death by ducks," said Rutgers political science professor Ross Baker.
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This reporter had never tried any marijuana ever (honest), nibbled some Wana product to see how it tastes.
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Maybe it's anchoring a tall pile of dusty books in the basement, its corners nibbled on by bugs.
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Her mother nibbled grainy Icelandic chocolate, which she kept in a shoebox in the cabinet above the fridge.
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Now, it's fighting a losing battle, nibbled by hungry mule deer and cattle and threatened by human encroachment.
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Knowing that barley was healthful, Mr. Gopi, Ms. Jimenez and a third founder, Jessica Aguirre, nibbled it plain.
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He nibbled as he went, beheading a kale flower while explaining that they taste sweeter than their namesake.
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I carefully unwrapped one of the little chocolate bars engraved with "420" and tentatively nibbled on a corner.
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Indoors all was serenity as guests sipped Champagne and nibbled tartlets of salt cod mousse passed by liveried waiters.
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This time, trading in just 2% of shares has been suspended; the national team has only nibbled on stocks.
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So the President and his team can expect to be nibbled by ducks as long as they're in office.
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He brought her a gift: a packet of biscuits that she nibbled in the sweltering dark of her shelter.
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He took a closer look and discovered that they'd nibbled through his electrical wiring, likely suffering a brutal end.
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She had nibbled very neatly all around the face so that what was left was exactly what was needed.
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After the event, as guests nibbled on falafel and hummus, Felix Klein took a seat at a corner table.
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As guests nibbled vegan desserts from Jack's, the Botox virgins got their treatments first to blunt the nervous anticipation.
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I nibbled on my bad bread, threw it in the garbage, gave my starter the love she deserved — yes!
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These deals had sparked public outrage and two rounds of Treasury Department anti-inversion rules that nibbled around the edges.
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Metal industry folk nibbled cocktail weenies alongside well-dressed government officials while introductions and conversations were made throughout the room.
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We sipped ice-cold glasses of anise-scented alcoholic raki and nibbled on mezze, assorted little plates of savory fare.
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When not batting away terrorist threats, he is nibbled by petty scandals, like spending 10,000 euros a month for haircuts.
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Practicality triumphed; most boys sipped and nibbled, to stay aware in class and to hit and field cricket balls afterward.
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As Ms. Taddeo nibbled on her seafood Cobb salad, her daughter bounded into the restaurant and jumped onto her lap.
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It comes covered in something described on the menu as "nibbled nuts," which gives the topping a nice second-hand feel.
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Here are five ways tech has nibbled away at valuable life skills and experiences, and what you can do about it.
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Or perhaps it will be a giant gummy bear on the plastic buffet table, its ears nibbled away by peckish partygoers?
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On Comedy On a recent weekend in Times Square, a crowd at Carolines on Broadway nibbled on chicken salad and hamburgers.
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Even weeks later, one of the duncan corals the tang had nibbled still had most of its lime-green polyps retracted.
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They sipped wine, nibbled hors d'oeuvres and made conversation; perhaps an unremarkable scene except for one thing: They were all women.
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In other words, he wasn't a picky eater, and nibbled on all kinds of foods, including some dangerous toxic bracken ferns.
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Committees in both the House and Senate have nibbled around the edges of several of the episodes raised by Mr. Nadler.
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"[When the Janus decision was made], they noted the history, and that recent courts had nibbled away the original ruling," Owens says.
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Among them was Amanda Godreau, who nibbled a ham and cheese empanada and waded through the churn of her own conflicting emotions.
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For this fitting, Mr. Krone had provided a spread of Fritos, crudités, M&M's and artichoke dip, which Ms. Everett nibbled sparingly.
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In recent years, the Kremlin has grown increasingly alarmed as smaller countries have nibbled away at Russia's dominance in the arms industry.
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Arriving in Paris in 1827, where she nibbled rose petals from the king's hand, she was lodged at the Jardin des Plantes.
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But while Apple has nibbled at the ad business a few times, it makes almost all of its money selling hardware to consumers.
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We gazed at an elaborate frescoed depiction of Rome's creation as we nibbled on salty smoked pork neck, Iberian ham and Portuguese cheeses.
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Guests nibbled on an assortment of delicacies, including pea burgers with goat cheese and lobster tacos, and sipped rhubarb spritzers, wine and Champagne.
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Adults drank wine, beer, lemonade or iced tea, and nibbled on sausage, chicken and brisket that Mr. Woo had smoked in his backyard.
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Staff members stood behind folding tables inside a sprawling lobby to hand out glossy promotional material, while parents nibbled on muffins and bagels.
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Majestic khinkali, mammoth dumplings, are best held by the topknot and nibbled carefully, so the broth — pent up within — spills into your mouth.
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I worried that in the land of pasta I wouldn't have enough to eat, so before the trip I anxiously nibbled some bread.
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It's addictive, and before long I've nibbled my way through enough that my breath makes passengers edge away on my return train ride.
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And no creatures, friend or foe, nibbled on the novices, but we missed seeing the whales and schools of dolphins that regularly swim by.
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Hadjee's fighters gathered for an afternoon workout at a local soccer stadium, three goats nibbled on a lone patch of dry grass near midfield.
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I nibbled on grapes, sipped tea, and checked my email while trying to keep my hands off my smooth bikini line in semi-public territory.
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At a campaign event in Iowa last November, Joe went off script and nibbled on his wife's finger while she was speaking at an event.
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At the diner, I nibbled on a blank edge of a sheet and was glad the chewy, relatively tasteless paper would soften in hot liquid.
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Guests nibbled on miniburgers and other hors d'oeuvres, and popped into theaters screening short works by Tatsuo Sato, Kenneth Anger, Barbara Rubin and other cineastes.
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Rats are no friends to farmers either, and Campbell pointed to some corn in Claudio Cruz's fields that had been nibbled away by sharp rodent teeth.
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But just as the specter of hoarding shouldn't rule out collecting as a hobby, not every nibbled nail should be judged by the end-stage diagnosis.
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He nibbled here and there — his appetite wasn't great by this point — and a surprisingly large portion of the meal ended up on his golf shirt.
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In the 1940s, Saudi rulers took a slice of Qatar's modest oil revenues; later they nibbled at Qatar's territory and dictated its foreign and defense policy.
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She found dozens of cases of domesticated cats (and dogs) who had nibbled on their deceased owners—most of the incidents were recorded in police reports.
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They sipped Champagne and nibbled on elegant canapés as they celebrated these marriages — but in many cases, the brides and grooms were complete strangers to them.
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Guests, including Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Harry and Meghan, nibbled on finger foods, like mini bites of beef in Yorkshire pudding and little Scotch eggs.
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Hair stylist Benjamin Thigpen coiffed his locks, he applied a sheet mask and nibbled on a salad before heading up to the museum to host the show.
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Guests, including Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Harry and Meghan, nibbled on finger food, like mini bites of beef in Yorkshire pudding and little Scotch eggs.
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Someone please make a movie about a person who goes for a casual dip in the cold, clear water and ends up being nibbled alive by eels.
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Her sense of life as a survival tale, of ordinary people being nibbled to death by loss, was the world I knew as a kid in Pittsburgh.
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Two pairs of jeans dried on a clothesline stretched across the roof, and his pet guinea pig, Comet, nibbled carrots and pellets beside an air-conditioner unit.
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There will be bunches of herbs (dill, mint, cilantro) to be nibbled on with the skewers after they're dipped in the yogurt and topped with those onions.
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Obamacare nibbled at its edges by paring back Medicare to finance new coverage and by applying a tax to high-cost health insurance plans provided by employers.
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As he spoke, he nibbled from several bowls of snacks — blackberries, grapes, carrots — arrayed colorfully before us like props in a movie devoted to an obvious theme.
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Jill Biden had been speaking to a crowd and gesturing with her hands when her husband leaned forward and nibbled on the tip of her index finger.
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At night, after the kids were asleep, my husband and I nibbled on the jumbo cookie and watched some Olympic slopestyle, waiting for Lucie to work her magic.
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Soon, as Kruse's history shows, a powerful coalition of ministers, corporate leaders and politicians under Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency nibbled away at the wall separating church and state.
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Partygoers sipped on Sean "Spicey" Margaritas and Moscow MOLES; nibbled on sliders, avocado toast and shrimp cocktail; and danced to a DJ spinning hip-hop and pop beats.
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On the next ridge, a dozen more horses nibbled in the pasture, and beyond them even more, dotting the hills almost as far as the eye could see.
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If a quarter-century ago fitness mavericks climbed onto steps and nibbled fat-free Snackwell cookies, now they are flattening their bodies like the pastry shells they eschew.
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Long-beaked parrotfish, big-eyed squirrelfish, translucent blue disc-shaped surgeonfish, and huge angelfish in a dozen patterns nibbled on brightly colored coral and darted through sea anemones.
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It was a balmy December afternoon in LA and outside the company's headquarters, many FF employees sat at outdoor picnic tables and nibbled on lunches provided by the company.
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We relaxed with a drink and nibbled on a medley of snacks, including a crunchy pea pod filled with a confit of garlic scapes and topped with fresh peas.
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Then they watched: as the polar bear rummaged through a rusted trash can, as it nibbled at an old snowmobile seat, as its eyes turned downcast, its spirit defeated.
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Near Ralston's grapefruit tree, Omer Sadika and Sebastian Wallin nibbled hors d'oeuvres as they compared notes about the stress of trying to launch their security companies, Secful and Castle.
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But as they nibbled hors d'oeuvres and sipped champagne and cocktails, many of the donors' faces appeared shocked as it became clear Cruz was not going to endorse the nominee.
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When "Feeder 2" was shown at the Tang Teaching Museum in upstate New York, audience members were so enticed by the work that they surreptitiously nibbled bits of the walls.
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And that is, we nibbled at the edges of it, to be frank, I mean, American presidential campaigns are not the most conducive environments anymore for deep public policy conversations.
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Many people, including Bernie Ecclestone, have nibbled at the Big Apple over the years in an attempt to hold an international motor race in one of the world's greatest cities.
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Guests like Vanessa Lachey, Rachel Zoe and Erin and Sara Foster sipped drinks from a fully stocked bar and nibbled on appetizers and sweets from Laurel Gallucci of Sweet Laurel Bakery.
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If their trials had remained a secret — if these daredevils had silently nibbled their mold cheese in shame or allowed themselves to perspire alone 'neath the brush — where would we be?
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"They slept a bit, munched on their bamboo and nibbled on some cookies," Andreas Ochs, a Berlin veterinarian who accompanied the couple, told reporters at Berlin's Schönefeld airport shortly after arrival.
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Food-delivery drivers are also taking a bigger bite of the market; a survey this week found that more than a quarter of them in America had nibbled on customers' orders.
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Some of the clients were violent, and the boss charged $248 a day for her to sleep on a sofa in a room at the parlor where rats nibbled on her food.
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We nibbled cuts of pork, including cheese-stuffed pork sausages, hearty pork and bean soup, all for a fraction of what a similar traditional French meal would have cost us in Paris.
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Starfish has no tail (it was nibbled off by her littermates), but what she lacks in appendages, she makes up for in admirers: nearly a quarter-million on Facebook and Instagram combined.
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"With the President being away, with the news cycle slowing a little bit, investors have nibbled their way back in," said Rick Meckler, president of LibertyView Capital Management in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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The mix of locals and tourists sipped drinks and nibbled on fried Spanish almonds, while eagerly waiting for a table at the property's hot restaurant (also called No. 103) featuring locally sourced fare.
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Works in Progress For the chefs and owner of Sen Sakana, a Nikkei restaurant whose name means "1,000 fish," it seems as if they've been nibbled nearly to death over the past year.
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The group had lists of registered Democrats and independents in Iowa and Tama counties, and as they drank tea and nibbled on candy and sandwiches, they went row by row, calling the voters.
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By keeping the cash out of the home, the household money is spent more carefully and less prone to being nibbled away at in an ad hoc way by every member of the house.
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Colliding with one of these delicate, easily injured jellyfish can spell its doom, as a wounded jellie is far more susceptible to being nibbled to death by the small fish also inhabiting the lake.
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Front Burner For the past few years, the pastry chef Dominique Ansel has been concocting what he calls Christmas Morning Cereal, which can also be sprinkled over ice cream or nibbled on the sly.
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But its shares slid after the company cited "driver pay and retention costs" and "driver recruiting costs" as some of the outlays that nibbled away at the benefits of higher prices and booming volumes.
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As hundreds of Trump Organization employees and guests nibbled on steak from Trump Grill and sipped wine from Trump Winery, Mr. Trump thanked the crowd for helping build the company that bears his name.
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As he picked, pulled, nibbled, and snipped his way through the garden, he gravitated most toward carrots, radishes, spring onions, and greens, with only a few detours for yarrow flowers and other delicate additions.
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To date, I've received lingerie in a baffling array of sizes, candy underwear that seemed suspiciously pre-nibbled, and one toy that was, frankly, so enormous I shrieked in fright the moment I saw it.
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The actual gist of the case, as Jimmy says on the bus, is that Sandpiper management has nibbled away at the savings of its residents, which he likens to a mistake on a dinner bill.
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Over the last 18 months in the two states, Aramark employees were allegedly busted pulling food out of the trash to re-serve and ordering inmates to hand out cakes on which rats had nibbled.
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As some of the Democratic Party's wealthier donors nibbled on appetizers at a Michelin-starred restaurant on the Brooklyn waterfront last month, Nancy Pelosi began to preach the urgency of defining the Democratic Party's future.
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The sun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay [feeding above ground], keeping out of the wind as they nibbled the shoots of spring grass.
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Marubbi said that the herd of about 150 goats, some of whom had kids in February, were a well-known local attraction and that most residents did not mind having their hedges nibbled by them.
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In one of the venue's spillover rooms, where roughly 200 people watched the former president on a video monitor, a man in the back row dozed off while others texted or nibbled on pastrami baguettes.
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All he had to do was not sink, keep his rating up, and then when he was off the clock he would be off for real, with no responsibilities nibbled out of his three-day weekend.
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In short, people would be pretty mad to learn how often their delivery meals were getting nibbled at before delivery — not exactly a shocking revelation, but an unfortunate one nonetheless given the frequency of food pilfering.
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After the house was baked and assembled, and all the royal icing scrubbed off the counters and floor, I was left with a large heap of scraps that I nibbled on for a couple of weeks.
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Where his competitors nibbled in familiar professional shades of smarm and euphemism, Trump lumbered blithely up to deliver what Republican voters actually wanted, which turned out to be the crying-laughing emoji and brutal, racialized authoritarianism.
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WATCH: Food Hack: Make Rainbow Cupcakes During the store opening, she sipped wine and nibbled on cheese cubes but slowly crept back over to the healthier side for dinner— noshing on fried avocado and almond-crusted halibut.
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We nibbled on salty aged parmigiano and sweet sun-dried tomatoes as we worked our way through the vineyard's lineup: the Murgo brut, the Etna white, the Etna red, and somewhere in there, the Murgo brut rosé.
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Livestock nibbled the valley grasses down to playable height, rabbit's warrens were patted down and puttable, and where the sheep laid into hillsides and wore the grass down to its sandy bottom, golf's first bunkers were born.
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Among the contenders on Friday was Shauna Mogan, 31, a high school teacher from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who nibbled a pickle and moaned in a mounting crescendo that culminated in screams and drew applause from the crowded restaurant.
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In the guidance issued in 2014 and 2015, the Treasury nibbled around the edges, shutting down the ability of companies to "skinny down" the United States entity or "fatten up" the foreign acquirer to clear the statutory hurdles.
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I had seen this even outside, as the cut-rate Ivana in the minidress nibbled the ear of her wind-reddened husband and he leaned back to nuzzle her with his mustache, both made insatiably horny by Trump's incipient victory.
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The top third, roughly, gave me fits, I had some major, early errors further down, and I made a slew of small mistakes that nibbled away the time: "bye" for AYE, "tut" for TSK, "arc" for ADS and so on.
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The train route between New York City and Chicago was once the apex of luxury travel: Passengers boarded after walking on a red carpet laid out on the platform and nibbled lobster Newburg on fine china in the dining car.
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A worn hand mirror in which a girl admires herself, a toddler's faded trousers, "wooden spoons with edges nibbled away by impatient childish teeth" seem to come alive as they register the end of the home life that they once furnished.
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As editor in chief of a newspaper obviously modeled on The Washington Post, Ned is hounded by the internet, nibbled at by budget cuts, undermined by the flight to the suburbs and the hopscotch attention spans of a new generation.
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In the past, times like these usually ended when I had enough work — school, employment, personal projects — to keep my mind busy, unable to obsess over small things and let myself get "nibbled to death by ducks," as one editor put it.
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At an interfaith center in Columbia, Md., as guests nibbled on egg rolls and miniature roast beef sandwiches, Mr. Rosenstein joked darkly about the low pay and high burnout rate that come with being the No. 2 official at the Department of Justice.
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"It needs to be over with — done," said Melissa Butler, from Columbia, S.C., who said she voted for Mr. Trump and intends to support him again, as she nibbled on a plate of tuna tartar and sipped on a glass of white wine.
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At a swanky party in October for an HBO documentary about Rolling Stone — while guests nibbled on sushi and a DJ played classic rock — Mr. Wenner ambled over to his table at the beginning of the night and greeted guests from his seat.
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But while luxury travel is one way to while away the summer days, the royals can also be found engaging in less regal pursuits, including barbecuing on the river in August drizzle and being nibbled by the notorious midges in the highlands of Scotland.
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Guests nibbled on meat, cheeses and fruit on an epic charcuterie spread by Samira Weddings and Events, and enjoyed other appetizers off a 16-foot-long grazing table of tasty bites by Lucky Board LA. A huge ice tower held shrimp, clams, oysters and other seafood.
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The expectant singer also wore a robe-like garment covered with a green leaf pattern to the 2017 NBA All-Star game in New Orleans the previous weekend, where the family of three enjoyed watching ball courtside as Blue nibbled on a stick of cotton candy.
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On one side, a clutch of starry attendees including Bella Hadid and Winnie Harlow, the makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, the photographer Mert Alas and Mr. Jacobs, alongside the party co-hosts Katie Grand and Poppy Delevingne, nibbled on halibut, red cabbage and potato salad behind velvet ropes.
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"It's a competitive race, like Missouri races usually are," he said in an interview at the local Republican headquarters here, where he nibbled on a depressing-looking bagel grabbed off a buffet, the sort of campaign sustenance typical of the exhausting final weeks on the road.
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In addition to preparing a traditional Salvadoran meal entirely from ingredients produced on the Stone Barns farm and feeding the Red Wattle cross pigs with the leftovers, the students nibbled their way through a walking tour of the property sampling wild sassafras root, kale and other produce.
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The red-haired and red-lipsticked Goldin, in black slacks and a black shirt—the photographer's customary uniform, because it allows one to recede into the background—alternately smoked and nibbled cheese or chocolate, or seemed to do both at once, as she talked about her childhood.
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At breakfast on a recent morning at the Corsi Senior Center in East Harlem, the crowd poured themselves cups of coffee and nibbled on toast as they shared stories and photographs of their family's experiences after the storm, as well as their worries about what would happen in the months ahead.
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Over the last two months of the season, Nova, 29, was 5-2 with a 3.06 E.R.A. A pitcher who frequently nibbled his way into trouble with the Yankees became a strike-throwing machine with the Pirates, striking out 52 batters and walking three in 64 ⅔ innings after the trade.
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Over an eight-day bus tour of rural Iowa, Biden took part in scores of off-mic exchanges with voters that showed a much different kind of candidate — far from the stumbling and inarticulate presence on TV, or the mocked politician who nibbled on his wife's finger in the middle of a rally.
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On a few occasions, during my visits to Ogden's home in Ocho Ríos to examine her art collection or interview her about her involvement with the Intuitives, Dizzy would unexpectedly turn up, and I would sit and chat with him while he nibbled eggs and toast, sipped coffee, and smoked cigarettes — or stronger, pungent spliffs.
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After my impromptu marijuana massage session, I wandered around to the other domes where I did dabs out a blown glass pipe with the bros at Sugar Leaf Extracts, nibbled on Sour Patch Kid and peach ring edibles from FlavRx, and walked through a greenhouse of live plants to collect weed samples from the girls at Kaya Farms.
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Reviewing that capacious and ambitious earlier novel for The New Yorker in 2001, John Updike rather delicately observed that Pamuk's desire to write in the 19th-century tradition, to access "a more generous, less nibbled attention span," to breathe "with bigger lungs" and write "long, deep and wide" might not be entirely suited to his "relatively short-winded" style. Maybe.
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We met a few day-trippers who nibbled on cukes (pickled cucumber, mango and jicama spiced with chili, salt and lime) and elote loco (corn on the cob prepared with spicy Cotija cheese, corn nuts, and cilantro.) We thought the crunchy fried tilapia tacos, topped with cabbage, radish and spicy aioli, were best washed down with the juice from a freshly cracked coconut.
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CreditCreditKholood Eid for The New York Times [What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox] Mikaila Bonaparte has spent her entire life under the roof of the New York City Housing Authority, the oldest and largest public housing system in the country, where as a toddler she nibbled on paint chips that flaked to the floor.
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J.'s family has a house up the hill from it, and it was while I was staying there, six summers before, that I had decided that one day I would reenact a version of John Cheever's short story ''The Swimmer'' by swimming across the entire length of the island, a 20-mile-long necklace of skinny fingers of land linking dozens of saltwater lakes and ponds, so many of them that when you look at a map, the coastline resembles something that's been nibbled on by a family of mice.
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The linkage goes like this: So beloved was tea back in Britain that the East India Company ran out of silver bars to pay the currency-suspicious Cantonese and instead plied them with India-made opium; the Chinese Empire went to war to stop this grubby trade in what they called "foreign mud"; it lost and was forced to cede Hong Kong to Britain; a thus-weakened China was then first nibbled at, then serially gnawed into further humiliating submission by Russia, France, Germany, America — and Japan, newly open to the outside world.
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