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«One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.»
Author: Damon Runyon
(Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brand, Brand New, cards, cider, come up, come up to, deck, decked, decks, deck of cards, earful, Have a Nice Day, jack, jump, jump out, nice guy, one of these days, seal, spade, spades, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts, These Days, This guy, This Man, travels
«That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size, sitting in the tower of the Tribune building with his guards protecting him while he squirts sewage at men whom he happens to dislike.»
«[ALF has just squirted Willie with a squirting flower] You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.»
«Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?»
«The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Insincerity,
Language
| Keywords:
aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
helplessly, ignorantly, pardonable, platitude, powerfully, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts