How To Use Muck In A Sentence

But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate. SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool
I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that.

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We are all sick with mucky colds again and Amelia is in the middle of the worst of it.
I was delighted to play alongside him for one last time; I wanted to play with my old mucker before he retired and went home to Iceland.
Ramsden is a good-tempered truth-seeker, not a malevolent muckraker.
Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march. Chapter XXXVI
But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young Waverley
There are all kinds of fine arguments (and conspiracies) available these days on anything (courtesy of muck-raking bloggers, not the kind of quality you get at THNTS) and it always comes down to the same thing: do what's right for you. H1N1
Regular for a fortnight were the inquiries of the Antiquary at the veteran Caxon, whether he had heard what Mr. Lovel was about; and as regular were Caxon's answers, "that the town could learn naething about him whatever, except that he had received anither muckle letter or twa frae the south, and that he was never seen on the plainstanes at a '. The Antiquary — Complete
Pete Muckle, Stow fire station officer, said his crew was called to four incidents caused by the storm.
There was no mucking around and no room for egos. The Sun
The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
Authority is there to counteract the piggy part of the self, the part that wants nothing more than to wallow in muck, doing nothing, staying stubbornly inert and apathetic. An Education « Tales from the Reading Room
Tak the drunkard frae his whusky, the deboshed frae his debosh, the sweirer frae his aiths, the leear frae his lees; and giena ony o 'them ower muckle o' yer siller at ance, for fear 'at they grow fat an' kick an 'defy God and you. Robert Falconer
Despite the rivalry, he insists he is still good muckers with Amis, who he thinks receives an inexplicably hostile press, and Barnes, who he says has been in hiding finishing a novel.
Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow.
The president's wife doesn't muck around with policy or sit in on Cabinet meetings.
When I moved in the ceilings were stained with nicotine and the carpets covered in dirt and muck. Times, Sunday Times
It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox haranguers to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful. The Times Literary Supplement
They were caught red-handed mucking up the "proof. Harlan Ellison on God
The drysuit zip is covered by a second zip to keep all the muck and crud out of the main zip's teeth.
But let me tell you-all that when the big strike sure does come, you-all'll do a little surface-scratchin 'and muck-raking, but danged little you-all'll have to show for it. Chapter VII
Perhaps some of today's young people could display a little more humility and willingness to muck in. Times, Sunday Times
Southern Asia to Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong-headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and dark races — but none possessing the excessively marked characters of Calmuck or Negro — group themselves. Essays
But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs. Old Mortality, Complete
He's a friggin 'schmuck, and I will campaign even harder to defeat Kennedy than almost any other Republican, because he's an opportunist. Your Right Hand Thief
Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity.
The row has included muck-raking. Times, Sunday Times
None of yer fancy foreign muck. Times, Sunday Times
Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur. Sir Gibbie
One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields.
The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper.
This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier. The Girl Can't Help It
After luxuriating in the playful sonic palette (and fine cast of notable collaborators) that Byrne's one-time mucker Brian Eno brought to the band's studio productions, the listener's rudely woken by the later work.
It is so unfortunate that there is still a need for journalistic muckraking.
Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble. Saint Ronan's Well
HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
I was walking down the main street and I saw a duck eating a dirty, mucky wet leaf - the poor things are not finding food.
Doom's done wi '; it's his decreet, and I'm no' a day ower soon wi 'the promise o' the Red Sodger -- for the which I'm muckle obleeged to you, Doom Castle
This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks.
Diel, and the damn'd loosey Rump is aud in aud; the muckle Diel set it i'solt, and his Dam drink most for't. The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause
Lets Let the president fix the heath care system and restore America to when it was the most powerful country on earth and then go after all the stupid logiest that pay dumb schmucks like you to run America in a way that they make all the money even at the cost of human life. Hatch: Ensuring access to health care 'an American issue'
They've sent divers out into the water, but so far, with all that muck and debris in there, they've only been able to see about five feet down.
I'm a mover of opinions, if you will; a raker of muck, a gangster of political science, a lethal phrasemaker, a ... well you get the idea. Your Right Hand Thief
Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.
Many a mickle makes a muckle.
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
Xinhua, China's official news agency, reports that one of its staffers was offered mucky clips as a purchase incentive when he asked for a demo of the video.
If you wear it to muck out the horses, I might get stroppy. Times, Sunday Times
By the way, unlike the French, con's American equivalent would be the masculine organ, prick, and schmock is, I think, probably derived from German schmuck (jewel); that is to say, "the family jewel. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
There is, however, with us, an inclination to apply this word particularly to those purer and more compact sorts which are adapted for fuel, while to the lighter, less decomposed or more weathered kinds, and to those which are considerably intermixed with soil or silt, the term muck or swamp muck is given. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
And since everyone on earth can be fooled with lies to some degree, you're going to look like a big-mouthed schmuck, when someone does lie to you, and you miss it Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Rerun Island:
The average guy who buys a mutual fund is not an investor at all; he's a chump, a patsy, a schmuck.
They should be ashamed of themselves calling some one a muck raker, even in jest. Blogger(s) triumph.
Gold-painted shovels were handed out, and on Mr. Muckle's signal all the dignitaries smiled, leaned over, and dug up a scoopful of sand. Hoot
The "mudflats" of the land around Anchorage were the most dangerous part, and several Japanese landing boats got stuck and their troops mucked through them as Alaskan forces began to assemble, slowing progress. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Duff has indeed expressed the wish to be re-reunited with his old mucker after the latter finishes his spell in one of Her Majesty's penal institutions, noting: ‘I can't believe a stupid fight came to this.’
Mounted on top of the caisson was a 5-ton Wilson crane, which would reach each shaft and also the muck cars standing on tracks on the ground level beside the caissons. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159
He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained.
Then I found out I was just a sentimental schmuck like those flighty nitwits I've always pitied.
On one occasion I set off from the friary to climb Muckish, but, a little later, the weather changed.
They are being constantly prodded on by the mouthings of the radical press, of the muck-raking magazines and of the demagogues. THEFT
Why can't it just be some bitter Xinhua reporter who knows lots of juicy stories he can't report saying Hey Bei Dou, you're a muckraking risktaker with his own website. Archive 2007-06-01
It is neither our purpose nor our desire merely to "muckrake" Pittsburg or any other city. "Instead of an Article : About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine"
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Scientists should figure out how to keep the natural world from mucking up the affairs of people.
One is investigative journalism; the other is muck-raking aimed at opponents of the powerful. Bianca Jagger: The Julian Assange 'Trial by Newspaper' -- A Response to Nick Davies
Now, having a new cold virus running amuck that can superinfect people with an untreatable pneumonia is definitely bad news. Globe and Mail
The muck then sticks to the insides of such things as water heaters, teakettles, and plumbing pipes.
Now the pair of them are in the muck and nettles of the Championship. Times, Sunday Times
Spent a very pleasant evening last week down the pub with my old mucker Joseph Kaye, a good mate from school.
Two of the candidates complained of unfair muckraking during the election campaign.
I could not help feeling superior as I surveyed the poor schmucks partaking of such costly fare while sipping their persimmon margaritas.
`In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. THE OUTSIDER
Carrying a bunch of regular slaves, but forward was a batch that were a gift from the Satrap of Jamaillia himself to some high muckamuck in Chalced. Ship Of Magic
Not too worried about that final castle in the sky are the muckamucks at Elad. Developers Rain on the Dead
Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances. Captains Courageous
Indeed, it was uneasiness about shmuck that led to the truncated euphemism shmo - and any shmo knows what shmo comes from. March 2004
Muck and money go together.
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Redgauntlet
Ye'll hae a sore leg, I'm thinking!" said I. "Ou aye," he admitted with the same grave smile, "but it's no sae muckle as a 'that -- juist a wee bit skelpit I-- Great Britain at War
He's without doubt the mucky pup of British art. Times, Sunday Times
He keeps pigs, cattle and sheep and does not look after the animals himself, contracting out all the mucky work.
But I would not compare a tribe of children flailing weak appendages at the hard surface their soft bellies go upon, in protest for the high muckymuck partisan Brown, to the battle for Iwo Jima Think Progress » As Obama Nominees Languish, Committee Schedules Vote On Right-Wing McConnell Nominee
I remember thinking,'This is going to muck up my Everest trip '. Times, Sunday Times
He may turn his attention to the healing art; and allopathically, homoeopathically, hydropathically, electropathically, or by any other path, run a muck through many heathen hospitals. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Roger & Me muckraked the CEO of Roger Smith for closing a Buick plant and throwing out thousands of employees in different areas of US. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
A sow, when washed; returns to the muck.
I'll lend her my Muckender - here Friend, pray give her this to cover her Knees a little.
Either up to their neck in muck and nettles or in clover. The Sun
A little tip Robbie, me old mucker… you are the entertainer, so entertain.
That was the name I swore to drag through every muckheap in France. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
This man, of Kalmuck extraction, and hideous, even savage appearance, but the kindest-hearted creature and by no means a fool, was passionately devoted to Pasinkov, and had been his servant for ten years. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle enough, and clecking time's aye canty time.' The Proverbs of Scotland
As Obi-Wan Kenobi browses the dragon corral, he sees a particularly energetic dragon toss aside a diminutive wrangler, dropping him into a pool of mucky water.
The stalls hadn't been mucked out for a long time.
“Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.” The Black Dwarf
Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
The name used by a squaddie entering one of these shops to the shopkeeper was always “Muckerjhee”, no matter what his real name. Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup.
An ideal opportunity to bunk off and muck about? Times, Sunday Times
Flanked on either side by a lass with a muckle great sword, and blowing for all he's worth, Kenny leads the procession into the main exhibition and conference hall, through a glitter of camera flashes.
CNN stop covering this moron just to muckrake Palin, practice some responsible journalism .... heck, even the liberals I know are getting tired of your sensationalism. Johnston says Palin lost his vote
Delighted to see my old mucker Bob McLean has a new book out charting the history of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly / Parliament.
A Kendal farmer was landed with a £300 fine this week after putting wildlife at risk by polluting a stream with watery cow muck.
Mainstream journalists used to leave such muckraking to the denizens of the swamp where tabloid reporters reside. Not any more.
I always thought this burg was Mecca for complainers, and anathema for lemmings and sheep who roll over for any scheming muckamuck who comes along. The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument
It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water.
There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
So he goes out and wins 20 games and is stellar in the play-offs and now the Yankees have to sign him or they look like schmucks.
The muck was banked up so high in places that we couldnt rescue some of the horses until the doors had been removed from their hinges.
A filled bath also makes a handy dip for anyone not mucking in properly.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Some, however, such as his old mucker Major, believe the question is still unresolved.
Do you call that food? I'm not eating that muck!
She was fond o 'caa'in' the crack, an 'I was wullin' that she should miscaa 'me as muckle as she likit -- for I'm no' yin o 'your crouse, conceity young chaps to be fleyed awa' wi 'a gibe frae a lassie. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
High Street wi 'a muckle loon, near han' as big 's hersel '! an' haith, but Meg had the best o ''t, an' flang him intil the gutter, an 'maist fellt him! Malcolm
I really prepared for the interview because I didn't want to muck it up.
Griffith had abandoned his own horse and was in the midst of walking towards him, his expression one of careful curiosity tinged with concern, his tall black boots spotted with muck as long grass squelched under his feet.
And now that trillions are sloshing up and down K Street, the same muckraked fate looms for the Obama administration. Newsalert
In real life, the sousaphonist is always some scrawny schmuck who only wanted to play concert tuba for the Christmas pageant so his parents would have pictures.
He kept running and smacked into him, knocking both of them down in the muck on the ground.
He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter!
You can get those English high-muckamucks by mail for two bucks apiece, '' suggested Sidney Finkelstein. Babbitt
A cross section of the photographs will be shown at an exhibition in Muckross Church at Easter time.
She apparently has her own way in everything now, the old chief being quite satisfied to get his rations of muckamuck and tobacco without troubling himself as to how it is provided. Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia
Luckie Mucklebackit and her family, an appearance of ease, plenty, and comfort, that seemed to warrant their old sluttish proverb, ` ` The clartier the cosier. ' The Antiquary
These big mucky-mucks are going to go in and rouse the rabble! Santa’s not welcome at detainee center in England « Dating Jesus
I am an adult person, also a horse owner, who is available for part-time or full-time work as mucker or groomer.
These men and others who do the shovelling are the "muckers. The Poisoned Pen
You do realize that progressivism is the government running amuck? Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform.
Based on your love of using the word schmuck, it must be one or the other. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bet for Climate Skeptics:
As the lead instructor, owner, operator and stall mucker of KD Stable, I am not afraid of work.
Stop mucking about and take my friendly advice.
Whoever said that drug penalties need to be stiffer is a stupid shmuck. Blaster author faces jail
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at Redgauntlet
On the first page of Allison's Awakening, one of the mucky books on my bedside shelf, the publishers warn that ‘this book is a work of fiction.’
The notion of muckraking journalism as an aphrodisiac seems like mere pundit wish fulfillment.
I didn't anticipate spending days mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen.
We have to tippy-toe in and out of our houses because of the muck and dirt on it.
Come on, let's wipe that muck off your face.
Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak's a muckle, as Papa used to say. Watershed
Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o 'their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that -- a guid naebody can reive them o'. Salted with Fire
In my house the only time I saw one being used was my dad using one to clean the muck off his boots from work. Times, Sunday Times
There was no mucking around and no room for egos. The Sun
And yes, we do Hanukkah too, I guess I'm just a lucky shmuck. Meredith Fineman: I'm a Jew Who Celebrates Christmas. So What?
The moment Charity had found her cousin, or any other occupation, Tom would slip away; and in a minute shrill cries would be heard from the dairy, "Charity, Charity, thee lazy huzzy, where bist?" and Tom would break cover, hands and mouth full of curds, and take refuge on the shaky surface of the great muck reservoir in the middle of the yard, disturbing the repose of the great pigs. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Since ye are sae kind as to say ye are content to lend me as muckle siller as will stock and plenish the Heugh-foot, I am content, on my part, to accept the courtesy wi 'mony kind thanks; and troth, I think it will be as safe in my hands as yours, if ye leave it flung about in that gate for the first loon body to lift, forbye the risk o' bad neighbours that can win through steekit doors and lockfast places, as I can tell to my cost. The Black Dwarf
More precisely, the film's fiction has nature running amuck as a result of toxic waste, dumped out of corporate greed.
Quickly we hauled the canoe ashore and began to follow on foot, but the muck and mire made a chase on land impossible.
Meanwhile, I await your examples of innuendo, ad hominem attacks, muckraking, uncharity and namecalling in my article.
Alex Massie also asks:Jeremy Clarkson is a muckle tube. Public sector strikes - Wednesday 30 November
In terms of finances, did you have a hard time convincing financial mucky-mucks to throw their weight behind the project?
Also coming aboard is Kate Klonick, most recently — like me, like Laura McGann — of TPMmuckraker. Expansion Team | ATTACKERMAN
I dinna gie a proper sorting to yon twa silly jauds that gard me mak a bogle of you, and a fule of mysell — Ghaists! my certie, I sall ghaist them — If they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing, they wad play nae sic pliskies — it’s the wanton steed that scaurs at the windle-strae — Ghaists! wha e’er heard of ghaists in an honest house? Saint Ronan's Well
When his party's candidates for president and vice-president die suddenly, Mays is tapped by the party's mucky-mucks to run for president in 2004.
She's talking about the media muckraking, about the price she thinks she paid. Times, Sunday Times
Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc. The Nature Of Proverbs
This photo was just me mucking about. The Sun
I went back to her stall and started to muck it out.
I don't know what I was thinking, mucking about yesterday with Time Magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, when there was a much more important listicle to talk about: the 2009 list of the Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions, released by IMS Health. Top 25 Psychiatric Medicines List Released
They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine.
Crouched in the middle of the road a Moro, gone amuck, darted fanatic glances in search of the Christians he had vowed to die killing, his eyes bloodshot with the self-inflicted torture of the juramentado rite. Terry A Tale of the Hill People
On Fox, which liked to test the limits of acceptability on mainstream US TV, the series was permitted to poke about in mucky areas from which other networks would have shied away.
Anyways just wanted to know how we got into charts and graphs on this one Also not to glad to be called a shmuck as I am sure the rest of the average joes and janes like myself dont. Dell hell: by the numbers « BuzzMachine
( "Muck" Andrew earned his nickname by disputing 30 years in court over a "middenstead" - a dung heap.) A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag
Where there's muck, there's brass, the saying goes.
The army of arthropods slurped bits of organic material out of the muck, then ejected balls of it like so many wads of chewing tobacco.
Not that she hadn't seen new sights in the Valley: eetees roaring along Figueroa Avenue in a Lincoln Navigator; eetee muckamucks cavorting in a swimming pool full of yellow slime; eetee grunts dead and bloated in an alleyway, lunch for a pack of feral dogs. Asimov's Science Fiction
We do not want people of his age mucking around risking people's lives.
running amuck," so frequent in all other Malay countries, has never taken place, and with a population of 30,000 Malays, all of whom carry their "creese" and revenge an insult by a stab, murders do not occur more than once in five or six years. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
Mucklebackits — we canna get a fin o’ fish — and we hae nae time to send ower to Fairport for beef, and the mutton’s but new killed — and that silly fliskmahoy, Jenny Rintherout, has taen the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet, the skirl at the tail The Antiquary
This little mucky parcel wrapped up in old clingfilm didn't fit in at all. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
Sheltered from reality in the public circus, these people seriously believed that their complicated jargon would be understood by the average shmuck on the street.
Perhaps some of today's young people could display a little more humility and willingness to muck in. Times, Sunday Times
I mucked up at the 13th hole and told myself that this was getting stupid.
The dreadful tale of the Kalmuck Tartars, in 1770, fleeing from their enemies, the Russians, over the desolate steppes of Asia in mid-winter; starting out six hundred thousand strong, men, women, and children, with their flocks and herds, and reaching the confines of History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
He took a glass of water till the Home Guard barged in and waved a muckle pistol in his face.
Jacob Welse was there now, and his grub-stores; so they wintered in the frost and groped in the frozen muck for gold. CHAPTER 5
The fact that a financial industry shmuck would even bring it up just proves that their brains are wired to think Obama should behave as though they purchased him. al in memphis Wall Street to Obama: Hands off!
Pacing the front of the room was the woman whom they knew to be Laheera … apparently a high muck-a-muck in the hierarchy of the world of Nelkar. Star Trek® New Frontier
How I laughed at hearing of her throwing a second muckender to a Methusalem!
He had nae ill will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hoisting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid. Redgauntlet
The flunkies had left their muckamuck exposed, but it had also turned its glistening head in their direction. Asimov's Science Fiction
That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done simply because this kind of muckraking exacerbates cynicism about public officials.
Since then, the magazine has gained fame for its relentless muckraking.
Number people, and especially computer nerds, thrive in that muck.
Come on, every year the Globe and the Herald muckrake the dozens of Boston Police officers whose overtime and detail pay pushes them over the $100K/year mark. In the ballpark
To think one could build a tunnel for a fixed cost through the muck behind the seawall is lunacy. Sound Politics: Public vote on viaduct tunnel
You could get caught wantonly mucking up a wedding ceremony, if you put up your hand when the vicar says 'does anyone present know of just reason...' etc. and say 'because the bride is made entirely out of meringue!'
Good to hear that the drive to stock a better class of lager, aka ‘fancy foreign muck’, at Helperby's Half Moon Inn is attracting plenty of custom.
It was the opinion of others she was not just mucking about. The Sun
The project will take some time, but children love to muck in, helping mix concrete and move blocks.
'Why conno yo say reet out' at it's a pleeace not fit for ony decent dog to put his head in, an 'an ill-mannert daggle-tail of a woman to keep it, as I'd like to sweep out wi th' bits of a morning, an 'leave her on th' muck-heap wheer she belongs? ' The History of David Grieve
They owe the local mucky-muck, Bricktop, a substantial wad of money.

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