10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWING THE LEAD»
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swing the lead in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
'To use a sextant': RN: 19705' (Peppitt)—also earlier; Granville, 1962, lists
hambone, sextant. Ex shape. swing the hammer. To malinger: army: earlier C.20.
(F. & G.) A var. of:swing the lead. To loaf; malinger, evade duty: C.20: orig. and
mainly ...
2
Secrets of Owning Your
Swing:
The Revolutionary Power3 Golf ...
Options: Golfers owning High-Track biomechanics will swing the lead arm up
above the shoulder line – much like Tom Watson has done throughout most of
his career. Low-Track golfers will swing the lead arm across the chest and below
the ...
3
The Gun Digest Book of Trap & Skeet Shooting
... creates a faster swing than possible with other techniques. Going back to the
skeet field, from a low gun position you need about four feet of lead to break a
station four crossing shot with the sustained lead. With the fast swing, the lead ...
4
What Made
The Crocodile Cry?: 101 Questions about
the ...
0 swing the lead is to shirk, idle, or malinger—in other words, someone who '
swings the lead' isn't pulling their weight. The sense goes back at least a hundred
years and was certainly much used as army slang during the First World War.
5
Operator's Manual: Crane-shovel, Basic Unit, Truck Mounted ...
(2) Remove the pile cap sling from the hammer. Raise the hammer and the lead
to remove the cap and the plug. (3) Swing the lead and hammer away from the
pile cap and lower the hammer to the ground. Remove the primary cable from the
...
6
The Barefoot Navigator: Navigating with
the skills of
the ...
Remember to allow for the fact that you might be standing as you 'swing the lead'
— or whatever it is that you have tied to the end of the line. The calculation might
go like this: you draw 2m, but you are swinging from 2m above that. Now add ...
7
Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Renowned for its weight, the metal leadappears in a number of expressions as a
metaphor for inertness or heaviness (see, for example, go down like a lead
balloon below and swing the lead at SWING). go down (or over) like a lead
balloon ...
8
A Treatise Founded Upon Philosophical and Rational ...
... bight of the line to the jibboom end, and with a tight line swing the lead forward,
when another man gives it all the force he can from the spritsail yard. This
method well managed, will heave the lead the farthest To Bring a SHIP to, to
SOtJND.
9
The Everything Blackjack Strategy Book
... look hopeless, don't be afraid to bet everything you can if you're still within a
reasonable distance of the leaders. In blackjack tournaments (poker tournaments
too, for that matter), the outcome of one hand can and often does swing the lead.
Tom Hagen, Sonia Weiss, 2005
10
Toby Potts in
the Temple of Gloom and Other Adventures of ...
Santa thought they looked familiar. Each challenge was met with a flat denial.
Santa may be able to swing the lead in Neverland, but at the Old Bailey, he was
good old George Albert Spencer. Once empanelled, the jury settled down to
listen ...
