10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH»
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and ...
77, 1997 shooting match noun all of something; the entire matter US, 1968 •
Meanwhile, ifthat settlement is not made by April first, I will take over the whole
shooting match. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 107, 1968 • “Sixty-one
hundred ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
the whole shooting match everything. informal 1989 Patrick O'BrianThe Thirteen
Gun Salute I have seen all the great houses brought down, Coutts, Drummonds,
Hoares, the whole shooting match. shop all over the shop (orshow) everywhere;
...
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Campaign for President:
The Managers Look at '88
You had to let people go on the RNC payroll and everything else. You weren't
being challenged. Bob, in 1984 you raised all the money. When you were being
challenged you limped, had to skirt around the law and the whole shooting match
.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Coutts, Drummonds, Hoares, the whole shooting match. shop all over the shop (
or show) oeverywhere; in all directions. 9 in a state of disorder or confusion.
Qwildly or erratically. informal shoot shooting shop o Allover the shop was first ...
Yet they see their side, their aspect, as the whole shooting match. Damn funny,
isn't it?” “Very,” said the doctor. “I think the expression 'whole shooting match'
extraordinarily apt, don't you?” “I do,” agreed the doctor, skinning the jacket off
him.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... of wax, or The contract includes paperback rights, film rights, electronic media
—the whole enchilada, or She lost herjob, her pension, her health-care coverage
, the whole shooting match. Not all the allusions in these slangy terms are clear.
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The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, ...
The true significance of the snaps is to be found in the first stanza, where Larkin's
unromantic, comic delivery—'the whole shooting match'—deliberately masks his
deep romantic involvement. It is easy to miss its significance. 'Faces in those ...
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American Sports, 1785-1835
They became the accepted standard sport and also became proverbial with the
American people ; common expressions were "as sure as shooting match" and "
the whole shooting match" (referring to an entire enterprise), etc. During these ...
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Pulp Classics:
The Black Mask Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 2 - May ...
"The whole shooting-match, eh?" He chuckled at the pun, while the others —
Kent, the village lawyer, and Beaton, the town medico — crowded forward with
an accession of interest. The suitcase was packed with pistols of all makes and
dates.
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Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights ...
In the discourse of this contestation we learn, in folk parlance, what “the whole
shooting match was about.” This folk phrase suggests that the intensity of a
shooting match, and particularly one involving animals, signifies the whole of an
idea.
3 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH»
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The Amazing Race Canada: How to lose the whole shooting match
Dogsledding threw a kink into Natalie and Meaghan's game plan, but that was nothing compared to what the shooting portion of a biathlon Road Block did to ... «Toronto Star, ago 14»
The whole shooting match: A visit to the Vancouver Gun Club
Director of Sporting Clays, Rob MacDonald (R) teaches Graham Peachey, 14, to shoot at the Vancouver Gun Club in Richmond, British Columbia March 24, ... «Globe and Mail, mar 12»
Maria Sharapova stalls out, upset at Wimbledon
Dulko had never been on Centre Court before; never scrambled past the third round here, while Sharapova won the whole shooting match in 2004. That same ... «New York Daily News, giu 09»