(44 quotes found)
“Feather by feather the goose is plucked”
Scottish Proverb
“I was plucking. Then I was shaving and plucking. Then I was actually scarring,”
Julia Wright
“I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.”
Scott White
“Every hare may pluck the dead lion's mane”
Proverb
“And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.”
Bible
“When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.”
“Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree.”
Uday Bhaskar
“Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree,”
“We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,”
Leonard Sand
“Want of pluck shows want of blood.”
Virgil
