Tossed around like a hot potato
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Dropped 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 such a hot potato that it was dropped.
ROBIN OAKLEY 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 Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN 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 . . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot bric...
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
STANLEY JORDAN Just having your name tossed around, it's amazing,
LASTINGS MILLEDGE We tossed around the idea of having three catchers anyway.
WAYNE KRIVSKY Life is so hot with hot food around!
SUPERNA BATHEJA As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
SUZANNE COLLINS 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 Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH 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 Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore.
- Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB Would you buy potato chips that listed potato by-product or potato digest as an ingredient
MICHELLE T. BERNARD My fate is like those envelopes – sealed and tossed aside.
JENNY B. JONES 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 Like a plank of driftwood
Tossed on the watery main,
Another plank encountered,
Meets, t...
EDWIN ARNOLD She has a hot bat right now. We booted the ball around.
LARRY BIEBER Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and ...
LUKE VISCONTI There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,
GEORGE JOHNSON If this does spread, it could go like wildfire. It could devastate potato production.
JOE GUILIAN I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievemen...
RON HOWARD I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE I just tossed it. I didn't even look at where I tossed it. I was just so ... mad.
KEVIN GARNETT To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE 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 These are things that are being tossed around, but whether, how and in what form it will take place,...
GEORG GREVE 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 People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot ...
PAGET BREWSTER 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 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 We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-...
DAN ANDRIANO 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 Now I know how a flounder feels. I was getting tossed all over the place.
KATHY CARROLL 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 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 When tempest tossed, embrace chaos
DEAN KOONTZ When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
DEAN KOONTZ Things that come to mind are things like getting a mini plate instead of a regular plate, asking for...
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