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«No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.»
Author: Alan Bennett (Actor, Writer) | Keywords: mention, sleeves, vicar, vicars
«There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.»
«To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.»
«McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.»
«It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves»
Author: Linda Geraci | Keywords: rolled-up, rolling, sleeves, wring
«Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.»
«Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work»
«Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves»
«If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.»