Dropped like a hot potato


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such a hot potato that it was dropped.
ROBIN OAKLEY
Tossed around like a hot potato
PROVERB
He looked like he was holding a hot potato.
MANNY LEGACE
not just a hot potato, it's a radioactive hot potato. We're all looking forward to December 18th, wh...
TOM FEENEY
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
PATRICK SWAYZE
We have to hit our cutoffs. We have to get (the ball) into the infield like it's a hot potato.
HEATHER MCCRIMMON
HOT POTATO MARKET. I would pay $100 million less for it.
BARRY STERNLICHT
Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
BETTY WHITE
Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after be...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
I dropped a guy getting a hot dog. A few holes later, he was OK. But it was awful.
CHRIS BERMAN
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
You're such a tiny little guy, though. Very petite, like a potato.
CORA RIDON CABALLES
It is significant that the countries have agreed on a broad set of principles. But they postponed ad...
KOH YU HWAN
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the...
LES DAWSON
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section...
ILLINOIS JACQUET
Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like ...
TARA KELLY
Would you buy potato chips that listed potato by-product or potato digest as an ingredient
MICHELLE T. BERNARD
Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket p...
OLIVIA COLMAN
As I read these scripts, I get sucked in. It's like potato chips.
BOB COOK
I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
If this does spread, it could go like wildfire. It could devastate potato production.
JOE GUILIAN
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.
JIM BISHOP
It has a hot flavor taste. If you don't like a vinegary, spicy-hot flavor, then you won't like it,
JOE TAYLOR
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and belie...
D. H. LAWRENCE
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
HENRY S. F. COOPER
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
If I were the judge, I would issue the injunction, and I would find an excuse to send it to the Fede...
GARY MORRIS
Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Iri...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I like to play long matches and in hot weather. Those are my conditions. I like it hot because it's ...
YULIANA FEDAK
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is undergr...
SPANISH PROVERB
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm...
JILL SCOTT
Like a hot knife through butter.
CLINT HURDLE
I just dropped to my knees and started crying like a baby.
MARK LYE
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
ANONYMOUS
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
It looks like a really hot product,
MICHAEL GARTENBERG
I am not a potato, I am Earl.
EARL LAMBERT
Trust is like a tear, once it is dropped, it cannot go back.
EYDEN I.
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE
I love the whole process of making, serving, and eating hearty soups like lentil, potato leek and ca...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.
JESSICA BIEL
We have tons of potatoes, but the people aren't potato eaters. They have rice, but don't like it.
ROBERT MUGABE
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
How are you holding up? BECAUSE I'M A POTATO
GLADOS
Marriage is like a hot bath, once you get used to it it's not so hot any more.
PHOTO
I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.
MASA TAKAYAMA
If you can't suck a carrot, go suck a potato!
CRYING UNKNOWN
A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, ...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A lot of my snacks are healthy. I love things like hummus, carrots, and celery, but I will never giv...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn on...
STEPHEN KING
I'm not advocating not using Kelly, but I feel like they dropped the ball and we dropped the ball by...
BRUCE THOMAS
It dropped right on the line, just like I wanted.
KYLE CONRAD
The county would like to see that (military) proposal dropped.
KAREN RAJALA
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENAUER
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Drop It Like It's Hot
SNOOP DOGG
All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific...
MANFRED AUER
I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON
It was like she dropped off the face of the earth.
HEATHER WEBB
Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB
As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation,...
MARCEL PROUST
Are you all ready to have a rockin' mashed potato time?
BILLY CORGAN
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part ...
THOMAS OVERBURY
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB

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