He's tried to roll out his mean, old bag of ugly tricks against her.
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Think: a striped bodycon dress, loafers, a bobby pin, an old bag...you've got this.
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Looking the way it does, this old bag sort of says what's in it, you know?
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Once, she said, her voice quivering, she'd been given an old bag of potatoes but found they all had worms.
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Sometimes we need to reach our hand into our shitty old bag of tricks just to make sure they are still shitty.
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She relapsed one afternoon in April after finding an old bag of heroin in her garage, but being on Suboxone, she felt sick, not high.
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Moscow's old bag of electoral tricks survives — for example, moving elections from December to early September so that summer vacations would leave challengers little time to organize.
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I took all the stuff in my old bag, put it in this new bag and threw out the old one right before I got on the plane.
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But, of course, a second free throw here would be useless, so he went into the old bag of tricks and pulled out the intentional miss/pass to yourself play.
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With his old bag of tricks, Cohen is successfully promoting his show not by adding to the conversation, but by gleefully poking at it and watching everyone — politicians and onlookers alike — get upset.
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Maybe that months-old bag of coke you did one line of and then forgot about is still great—or maybe it's now about as powerful as the baby powder it was cut with.
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Sure, it's easy to pick any old bag from your closet and hope it's smaller than your airline's baggage restrictions, but it's often too big or too heavy, and you're forced to check it anyways. Ugh.
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As Neil Armstrong's old bag of moon dust proved, space junk can be worth a whole lot of money, and the two plan on auctioning off the suits at the American Space Museum in November to help pay for their tuition.
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Alas, that largely exhausts any freshness in a movie that, after the first sight of Jamie Lee Curtis and initial strains of that eerie musical score, draws heavily on the old bag of tricks, built around slicing and dicing unsuspecting teenagers.
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They aren't leased by PepsiCo, the Coca-Cola Company doesn't send drivers out every evening to restock soda cans, and Wrigley never receives the four quarters you plunked into the bowels of your laundromat's confectionery display for a months-old bag of Skittles.
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" The researchers warned that age-related epithets such as "geezer" and "old bag," as well as assumptions about the capabilities of the elderly, can be truly harmful -- they "affect older workers in the same way that they do members of racial minorities, eroding self-esteem.
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Laskas pays attention to everything from the affectionate nicknames people call each other ("Lucifer" and "old bag," between spouses) to the smell outside a settlement for migrant workers in rural Maine ("the blueberry scent lay like a fog over carpets of balsam"), so that readers will too.
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Some in Crosby view her simply as "that old bag," but Strout, as in "Olive Kitteridge," is exquisitely attuned to the subtleties of her beloved character's innermost thoughts; she makes us feel for Olive, giving us an intimate, multifaceted and touching portrait of someone suffering alone.
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While you were sleeping, or eating Maltesers, or trying to explain transgender rights to your gran, Craig was tearing up and down the country with a big old bag of funk and soul records, and a white shirt that doesn't really let his skin breathe when he gets hot.
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Mathews was also Police Minister; he was described by the "terrorists" as "Minister of Plod". The second letter described Mathews as a "tiresome old bag of swamp gas" and a "pompous fathead". It also threatened that if the demands were not met, the painting would be burnt.
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In frustration, Jack calls Mabel an "old bag," triggering her memory of Jerry robbing her. Mabel tells everyone it was Morty's son who stole the rye bread from her, and the board unanimously votes for Morty's impeachment. As vice-president, Jack becomes the new condo president. The Seinfelds leave the condo.
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Archetypal East-end mother-earth figure. Fat, funny, sometimes loud, often openly sentimental. An obsessive view of family...she can be a stubborn cruel "old bag" when she wants to be, sometimes keeping "atmospheres" going for months. It was always Lou's house that was used for the big family celebrations.
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Winters played American football at Western Illinois University and was drafted in the tenth round of the 1987 NFL Draft. Winters was the Packers' starting center serving for eight straight seasons (1993–2000). He played in the Pro Bowl and also earned USA Today All-Pro honors in 1999. His nickname was "Frankie Baggadonuts" or "Old Bag of Donuts".
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After gathering her clan of Beales and Fowlers around her, she has a few choice words of wisdom and encouragement for each family member. The next morning, she is discovered dead in her bed by daughter Pauline, having died peacefully in her sleep the previous night. Her friends and family mourn her death affectionately, never quite managing to forget the irreplaceable "old bag". The youngest of seven siblings, Lou was from a large East End family herself.
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After Johnny Maxwell, a boy in his early teens, finds Mrs. Tachyon, an old bag lady, by a cinema he discovers that her trolley is in fact a time machine. He goes back to his town, Blackbury, during the time of The Blitz with his friends Stephen (aka Wobbler), Bigmac, Kirsty and Yo-less (possibly because Johnny has been obsessing about the destruction of Paradise Street in a German raid). Wobbler gets left behind in 1941, and when they return for him, Johnny tries to prevent the deaths caused in the raid.
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In a book written about Women and Soap Opera, Ena was described as "brusque and uncompromising, refusing to adjust to the changing times". Ena has also been described as "a Coronation Street prototype, a strong, bossy woman". In an interview Violet Carson described Ena as the eternal busybody, the rock of ages; when things are going well, she is the old bag, when things are going wrong, she is the first one they turn to". Actor Michael Melia has claimed in an interview that he thought the character of Ena was "the most forbidding face on the street.
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Many demagogues have found that ridiculing or insulting opponents is a simple way to shut down reasoned deliberation of competing ideas, especially with an unsophisticated audience. "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, for example, was a master of the personal insult. He got his nickname from a speech in which he called President Grover Cleveland "an old bag of beef" and resolved to bring a pitchfork to Washington to "poke him in his old fat ribs." James Kimble Vardaman consistently referred to President Theodore Roosevelt as a "coon-flavored miscegenationist" and once posted an ad in a newspaper for "sixteen big, fat, mellow, rancid coons" to sleep with Roosevelt during a trip to Mississippi.
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In the Aleutians, 1945 The film begins by describing how the Aleutian Islands were considered a "back door to the United States," resulting in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, after which the islands are now "a front door to Tokyo." It goes on to describe the harsh and widely varying environment—rain, snow, thunder, whirlwind gales—which the narrator attributes to Mother Nature: “the old bag blew her top!” The narrator also describes the conditions as "almost unbelievable," to which an observing elephant seal replies with Jimmy Durante style, "Nevertheless, that's the conditions that prevail." Two servicemen emerge from thick mud riding on what appears to be another serviceman.
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The mass of an old bag of cement was one hundredweight ~ 112 lb, approximately 50 kg. The amount of material that, say, an aircraft could carry into the air is often visualised as the number of bags of cement that it could lift. In the concrete and petroleum industry, however, a bag of cement is defined as 94 pounds (~ 42.6 kg), because it has an apparent volume close to . When ready- mix concrete is specified, a "bag mix" unit is used as if the batching company mixes 5 literal bags of cement per cubic yard (or cubic metre) when a "5 bag mix" is ordered.
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Richards' occasional TV work includes Holby City, Doctors, Judge John Deed, Moon & Sun (BBC), Virgin Birth (Granada), Sparkle Baby Sparkle (ITV). Richards co-wrote the award- winning short film The Crouch End Negotiator (48 Hour Smoke & Screen Challenge) in 2007 and co-starred in Lucky old Bag the following year. His newest short, Crime Central, was released in 2015. Having seen Richards in The Black Rider, Scott Walker invited him to appear in London at the Barbican, performing with Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn in Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker in the songs Clara, Jolson and Jones, and Farmer in the City.
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