10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAS HOG»
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gas hog in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gas hog and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hybrid Vehicles: and the Future of Personal Transportation
Values for the SUV and pickup truck (the very definition of gas-hog) are GC =
18mpg andf= 20%. For the gas-hogs, GH = 21.6 mpg. The gasoline saved
annually is 111 gal. Values for the small fuel-sipper are GC = 36 mpg and the
samef= 20% ...
Once upon a time, there was a man who bought a gas hog. That's what he called
it. Actually it was a great, big, over-chromiumed rolling cabana called an
automobile. It drank gas like a glutton. It wouldn't fit in the man's garage. It wouldn
't fit in ...
... as a surrogate for thought. A steam locomotive, all smudgy and ungraceful, is
termed a hog; a big, wide American-made auto is a "gas hog," while its driver is
very likely a "road hog"; a stripped Harley-Davidson 74 motorcycle is a "chopped
...
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交通用語,生活所需;常記常背,任你遨遊 尹裕. This car gets good gas mileage. I :
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good gas mileage I ffiM (to consume less fuel) fgfe a gas hog ° Compact cars get
good ...
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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
GAS HOG a gas hog. An old car that gets low mileage and lots of "fill-ups."
Source: HOG. WNNCD: O.E. A gas hog has an insatiable thirst for gas, just as a
domestic hog has an insatiable thirst — or hunger — for swill or hogslop. They
never ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
A road hog (MWCD: 1891) has no intention of sharing the road with anyone, and
it is more than likely that he/she is driving a car that "drinks gas as if it were water"
: a gas hog. DEI; SA. HOG THE LIMELIGHT See Hog (n). HOGWASH See Taste ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
He says it's a gas hog. The owner swore he'd sell it cheap because even the
dealer couldn't stop it from guzzlin' gas." "What'd they say at the dealer's shop?" "
Tried to sell me a tune-up. But I give a mechanic four bits and asked him private.
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The Gourmet Butcher's Guide to Meat: How to Source it ...
rwR Your Personality in Swine Terms Perhaps you're a gas hog or a road hog. Or
you occasionally go whole hog or hog wild. Perhaps you hog your food, or drive
a chopped hog. Or try to hogwash your audience . . . or like to be hog-tied. the ...
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The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
I might put signs under their windshield wiper that said, “GAS HOG! OINK! OINK!”
Or, I might put a pig nose on their car as a hood ornament, and then make a
custom license plate holder that I could slip over the existing plate. The top part of
...
Temple Grandin, Sean Barron, Veronica Zysk, 2005
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Handbook of Oil Industry Terms & Phrases, 6th Edition:
... low mileage per gallon, “gas hog.” GAS HYDRATES See Hydrate.
GASIFICATION Converting a solid or a liquid to a gas; converting a solid
hydrocarbon such as coal or oil shale to commercial gas; the manufacture of
synthetic gas from other ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAS HOG»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
gas hog is used in the context of the following news items.
U.S. shale has been stymied by Saudi Arabia, says Shell CEO
Funny Doug, all those years I was riding around in a gas hog burning Saudi oil it really didn't seem like a great deal of trouble. I too would like ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival float burns after parade …
"The guy wanted to get rid of it — said it was a gas hog," Borden said. "I checked it out, drove it and said, 'This'll work.'" PORT TOWNSEND ... «Peninsula Daily, Jun 15»
Incentives Of Up To $12000 In California To Get Low-Income People …
Those living in certain parts of the state of California who qualify as low-income residents and have an old gas hog that pollutes heavily will ... «CleanTechnica, Jun 15»
2016 Ferrari 488GTB
... its neck, Ferrari felt it had to make a power and performance statement, but without turning the model into a big-bore gas hog. So it went shopping for turbos. «Car and Driver, Jun 15»
2016 Honda Pilot: Honda's All-New, Fully Evolved Family Crossover
... confirmed my impression, telling me many customers never considered the second-gen Pilot simply because it looked like a gas hog (ironic, ... «Forbes, May 15»
Plastic Waste Could Fuel Your Car One Day
After years as a gas hog, his lightbulb moment came when he was throwing away a printer cartridge. There has to be another use for items like ... «Popular Science, May 15»
AutoCouple: She says ... Great big QX80 impresses with luxuries …
So although the QX80 is tougher on fossil fuels than just about anything else we've driven, I should not have called it a gas hog. It's not a sin to ... «TriValley Central, May 15»
Pentagon: ISIS Hasnt Taken Ramadi Yet
... the floor in one or another stage of laughing-gas hog-wildness, grunting and groveling and slobbering and scuffling for the hose like so many ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
The Kia K900 is affordable opulence
The powerful V8 is, like other V8's, a gas hog. The K900 has a EPA rated mileage of 15 in the city and 23 on the highway, with a combined ... «Kirkland Reporter, Apr 15»
A drive down memory lane, but in a much newer Mustang
Their old V-8 had been a real gas hog, they said. They were impressed by the “new-fangled gadgets,” especially the backup camera with park ... «The Globe and Mail, Apr 15»
