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  • Every time I can scrape a few quid together, I smack 'em straight into the premium bonds.
  • Have you then seen the same old coffin dodger like ten years later and been utterly gobsmacked to see them still alive and kicking?
  • If you smacked any other person than a child then you would be charged with a level of assault, so why is it legal for a parent to assault a child?
  • Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
  • It can also mean smacking it. Positive Parent Power
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  • I want to tell you one thing: I'll take you Times Square later and lay the smackdown on you.
  • They got started, and I went over and smacked Ron one for being such a feeb.
  • There was a smack, then the sound of a door closing and locking.
  • She saw a tube of lipstick out of the corner of her eye and applied it to her lips before smacking them together looking at the result before grimacing and swiping it from her lips.
  • The guns of the Thunder Child sounded through the reek, going off one after the other, and one shot splashed the water high close by the steamer, ricocheted towards the other flying ships to the north, and smashed a smack to matchwood. The War of The Worlds
  • Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
  • ‘We were gobsmacked by the success of the film, we couldn't believe it,’ Borland says.
  • Judging by his face, he had no clue she was going to land a smacker on him! The Sun
  • At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
  • I swear that girl is going to make me smack her upside her head one of these days.
  • He tapped me on the forehead, smacked my butt, and even stuck his finger in my ear.
  • I am still constantly gobsmacked we are still together after what we have been through. The Sun
  • She smacked me on the cheek.
  • I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
  • He was just glowing afterwards, he was gobsmacked.
  • Big 2WackGo wants their stooge the US government and military to let our shores be flooded with smack (or, in the 80's, crack) if "that's what it takes" to make sure children in this country can't experiment freely with cannabinol instead of nicotine. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • After a few second, he heard a resounding smack and a thud as Valshar obviously hit the wall.
  • ‘We don't even believe in smacking the kids,’ she said.
  • After Amber's palm made contact with Jackie's face, sounding off a loud smack through the area, Jackie fell to the ground from the force.
  • Do that again and you'll get your bottom smacked.
  • There was a t-shirt which had the heading… ‘Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981.’
  • They are having an intellectual smackdown on the growth in income inequality in the United States over the past two decades and what to make of it.
  • Catching her wrist, Holman smacked her face viciously, sending her to her knees, but still holding on to her.
  • But the facade always smacked of overcompensation.
  • He certainly didn't look overawed as he stepped on to the first tee and smacked his drive a mile down the fairway. US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy into final round with eight-shot lead
  • Which whacked off four Truffala trees at a smacker. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lesson of the Lorax:
  • Constitutional Court judges were "gobsmacked" when they learnt that ANC Daily News Briefing
  • I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
  • A sort of Spanish Rye, smack bang in South America.
  • I especially like the smackdown for people who wear the t-shirt of the band they are going to see.
  • Ironically, her trial also gave us the lip-smacking insights into the spending habits of the rich. Times, Sunday Times
  • She elbowed the back of Bashir's head, smacking his face against the ground and leaving him unconscious, and that was that.
  • Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
  • It is expected to reach hurricane strength in the next 24 hours, and then smack into Nicaragua sometime on Sunday.
  • Then he tried to be a trendy DJ by mixing it up on a record deck, before landing a smacker on 13-year-old Vicky Hopson.
  • Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
  • It can also mean smacking it. Positive Parent Power
  • They bolted into the kitchen and before I could even find a weapon big paws were on my chest, I stumbled back, smacked into the counter and got dog slobber all over my neck.
  • It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
  • I am tempted to spend a thousand quid on smack, shag a back-street-slapper and spend the rest of my life in a cardboard box - but I do not.
  • That quote made me wonder if the commission is authorized to smack people. Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
  • Instead of a hard sock in the arm, he got a soft smack in the arm.
  • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
  • At primary school we had an elderly teacher who smacked us so hard across the palms, he would snap his yard-long ruler in two.
  • Can you see the tremendous potential that exists when jazz leadership smacks up against the daily grind of your leadership journey? Christianity Today
  • Her comments are so threadbare and banal, that her role smacks of the worst kind of tokenism.
  • They like the hit it gives them, but the comedown is really heavy so then they take some smack to get through it.
  • He smacked his choppy lips, his moist skin dark olive green in the candlelight.
  • He stopped and smacked himself in the forehead with the heel of his hand.
  • A thousand smackers to any man, woman or child who can take me on in the ring… Shea!
  • You smack your forehead as punishment for saying that.
  • The jones, the real smack was not the chemicals themselves, but the euphoria of the endless possibilities set off by the acquisition of the substance.
  • Mychael spun around, her hand connecting with Caleb's face with a loud smack.
  • But the defending champion smacked over a running backhand which almost knocked the Slovenian off his feet. The Sun
  • Loved Smackdown and i am excited about John Morrison's potential but i wish the writers would just leave poor Vickie alone, JM calling her abig fat pig was so unnecessary and made it all feel very awkward. Blog updates
  • Lydia tried to stop him and was rewarded with a sharp smack to the leg.
  • And not just pregnant - she even tracks down a back-alley abortionist (played with lip-smacking subtlety by singer Macy Gray) who nearly kills her. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls
  • His automatic bed cranked him into a sitting position and as he opened his eyes, I gave him a great smacker of a kiss.
  • The tightrope walk between self-promotion for the sake of viability and distaste for anything that smacks of selling-out has presented Stanley with a dilemma.
  • It also smacks of poor planning. Times, Sunday Times
  • You did not smack their bottoms! Times, Sunday Times
  • Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
  • He then planted a smacker on the face of his bat. The Sun
  • He smacked the money down on the table and walked out.
  • I gave him a smack on the jaw.
  • First, a primer for the uninitiated: Similar to racquetball, squash is played in a four-walled court, and the ball is smacked against the front wall.
  • They shoehorned some of them in but the British travellers clearly felt that it smacked of tokenism.
  • Under my amendment, parents will still be able to smack their children if they don't harm them physically or mentally.
  • It also smacks of poor planning. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may read thin here; it would smack racily in the playroom. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
  • Ian's head smacked against the bottom of the dashboard and his ears popped from the momentary change in air pressure.
  • A loud smack of something hard meeting with something soft was heard before Trinity spoke up.
  • They are seasoned with garlic, peppers and oregano, roasted on a spit over a barbecue and then, to the smack of a machete on a chopping board, they are served up with plantains, pumpkin and rice.
  • It looked less like a demo, more like one of those wrestling smackdowns on television.
  • I suppose a forecaddie can prove useful considering the hilly terrain, but Lost Canyon's forecaddies smack of a military escort.
  • I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
  • Not too far behind its neighbor Massachusetts, Vermont's first established colony dates back to 1666, smack dab on the Isle of La Motte in Lake Champlain.
  • One of the big guys will come up with some dumb thing or other, and next thing you know, two weeks later, it's spread to the rest of the plane: ‘Hey, let's start referring to the debates as smackdowns!’
  • He winced when Kala delivered a loud smack to her father's cheek.
  • I'm pretty gobsmacked that it's being considered.
  • Of course there are highly publicised stories of high profile cons being attacked i. e Huntly, but in the main, cons just want to get on with their sentence and get the hell out of there and if scoring some smack from a beastie helps dull the process then they WILL associate with them. on January 29, 2007 at 11: 02 am | Reply Notacriminal Silly Me « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Startled, I jerked my hand away, smacking my head on one of the upper deck's support beams in the process.
  • With a little force and a good aim, she succeeded in squishing the scream - inspiring creature with a sharp smack.
  • Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad). In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
  • Two hundred and eighty-eight million smackeroos.
  • Todd Walker singled Boone to third before Larkin smacked the ball to right field off Mike DeJean National League – Major League Baseball - Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee
  • So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
  • We heard them tear at the air around our ears and smack into the clay brick and concrete. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still wrecked tired, but got word today I'll be retained for Monday and Tuesday, so that's an extra 500 smackers.
  • I get offended, and upset, by children running around, out of control, by their mothers shouting at them, smacking them or swearing at them, should I call for a ban on that too?
  • Seconds later the aircraft smacked into the deck and was violently restrained as its arrestor hook caught, the deceleration dizzying. Times, Sunday Times
  • His latest project is a big house on the corner of Wales Avenue, smack-dab in the middle of Toronto's Kensington Market. Free Fiction February: "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman
  • They breed like bleeding rabbits smacked out of there arses on viagra here in sunny Manc land. Spins And Needles « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • That produced catcalls, hoots, some lip-smacking noises, and a shouted request for a date.
  • Anybody who gets their purse stolen, whacked by their spouse or smacked in a bar should raise a toast to bad drivers starting July 1.
  • The way the English deal with their current law - and how they enforce closing time by bellowing at poor drinkers - smacks of a mean streak of miserableness.
  • The smackheads (heroin users) are using it then coming down on gear (heroin).
  • Lynda Chalker had smacked his face in the crush bar of the Grand Hotel.
  • I heard a very loud smack and my eyes went directly to the front of the room.
  • Top End Tourism spokeswoman Sylvia Wolf was "gobsmacked" at the outcome. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • Suddenly he dropped me without warning and I hit the ground with a loud smack.
  • They hurried along, the smack of their feet the only sound that echoed in the dank cavern.
  • It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
  • Tracy spoke to reporters for four minutes, and as the crowd dispersed, he smacked base of the bench with a fungo bat and bit his lower lip. Rockies team president Keli McGregor dead at 48
  • They are deeply uneasy with social instruments like shame or opprobrium, which smack of big-nosed authoritarianism in a new guise.
  • I worked out that at default, its set dead smack bang in the middle.
  • On its own, this sequel is simply a cat-and-mouse procedural, dotted with the occasional smackdown and pyrotechnics display.
  • A Tiger Woods-Rory McIlroy smackdown is not on the schedule so far. Ryder Cup: A Most Un-Golflike Golf Tournament
  • I work pretty much smack bang in the middle of it all in Farringdon, right next to the unmarked Reuters building, which is Fort Knox by the way.
  • I leaned in and gave her a quick smack on the cheek as she shoved me away.
  • And at the dining hall of the Games Village, they flocked for an evening of lip-smacking fare and oodles of fun.
  • If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.
  • ¡Un contestant anterior de la búsqueda del diva de WWE, amy Weber hizo un diva del talón para SmackDown de la hospitalidad de lucha del mundo! marca de fábrica; su truco estaba como consultor de la imagen de Juan "Bradshaw" Layfield en el gabinete. Amy Webber
  • We heard them tear at the air around our ears and smack into the clay brick and concrete. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think it's also worth mentioning the somewhat blind crusade for copyleft that Cory is on, where anything that remotely smacks of Big Corporate Copyright is slapped down.
  • Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety.
  • If you go to a dealer to buy it, they will most likely also have other drugs, therefore anyone who wants a smoke will get pills, coke, possibly smack or crack offered to them.
  • It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
  • It was a trivial habit; it smacked of privatism, of egoizing. THE DISPOSSESSED
  • Partly because his kiss was a solid one, not a smack or whatever other types they are, also because this was Kenny!
  • That sounds mercenary and self-serving; it smacks too much of self-advancement. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness.
  • You want to impress him with your loyalty and enthusiasm, so give him a hearty smacker on both cheeks. The Sun
  • He knew the smacks, bawleys and barges, and had sailed aboard most boats suited to the tidal waters.
  • Mechanically he ran the rope under the sleeve of his life-jacket; a mighty jerk seemed likely to pull him in halves as the smack sheered; then a heavy, dragging pain came -- he was being torn, torn, _torn_. A Dream of the North Sea
  • Without warning, Bardo smacked his fist into his open hand.
  • But the whole book smacks of self righteous mockery and I hardly think this is the way a responsible, caring parent would wish to raise their children.
  • He was so much stronger than cocaine, wasn't it supposed to be as dangerous as smack?
  • YOU LIBS can't see the TRUTH if it hit you in smack in the face. Dunn leaving White House
  • At the back of the drainboard, smack in the middle of the dishcloth, a small brown roach waved his antennae sluggishly-sick, no doubt, confusing his nights and days.
  • ‘Man, you're easier than I thought,’ he snickered, earning him a sharp smack on the head with another pillow.
  • The chimpanzee then pulls out the grass stem and picks off the termites with its teeth, smacking its lips with pleasure.
  • With no alternative, she learns to fight and confronts him for the final smackdown.
  • But I could see from her eyes she was away with the fairies, courtesy of smack, methadone, or maybe some indiscriminate bottle of tranquillizers.
  • His anger over this smackdown is interesting though, and ... if you know anything at all about him historically, pretty easy to explain. Sacked!
  • But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism?
  • But anything more general just smacks, to me, of a naivety about the historical construction of the nation-state.
  • Even I got one, a smacker, on the cheek, luckily.
  • Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
  • Still, some soldiers criticize the preponderance of awards for officers because it encourages politicking and smacks of careerism.
  • It's hard to imagine how a drunk bully of a father is likely to remember a law that bans smacking.
  • So his decision to show the way last night smacked of a perverse desire to prove something to himself and the world.
  • So hit the ‘rents up for five smackeroos, and follow the easy steps below.
  • They were the work of a determined minority of clergy and liturgists who had a horror of anything smacking of the transcendent.
  • Some green-haired kid at school payed me a cool 500 smackers to stand guard here, and I'm gonna do just that!
  • Obama has invented a phrase for actions that smack of politics-as-usual: okey-doke. Strike That... - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
  • He kept running and smacked into him, knocking both of them down in the muck on the ground.
  • But university chums are gobsmacked at his claim. The Sun
  • Yes | No | Report from abrege wrote 7 weeks 1 hour ago nice catch, i hope someone gave that woman a smack on the head for giving him crap about still casting. maybe she thought he was trying to catch the sharks around them Close Calls: An Angler Save Three With His Fly Rod
  • Someone played saxophone badly on a rooftop a block away, and was still playing as my electric typewriter smacked the manuscript paper keeping broken time with the aphasic saxman. Giles Slade: The King of Pop (and Heartbreak)
  • Interesting how that demarcation is slipped in there and w/o further comment by the correspondents, even though it leapt right off the page and smacked me right between the eyes. Demarcation, Demarcation, ….
  • While the taxmen ponder what would be acceptable, the club - smack bang in the middle of a redoubtable promotion drive from the Third Division - faces the not inconsiderable problem of how to fund itself during this coming week.
  • Whenever I am driving, I can barely avoid being smacked by some or the other road-user for no fault of mine.
  • I smacked my forehead and reached for the wall behind me; the hideous sight had suddenly weakened my constitution.
  • When we finally arrived at Boyes in Goodramgate, I felt like puckering up in a Pope-like fashion and planting a smacker on the carpet, but I soon discovered this was a difficult, if not impossible dream.
  • Fielding at short mid wicket he took off, flung himself full length to his left and caught the ball in his outstretched left hand leaving Young gobsmacked.
  • Not too far behind its neighbor Massachusetts, Vermont's first established colony dates back to 1666, smack dab on the Isle of La Motte in Lake Champlain.
  • I sure hope that nickledeon doesn't give shama full reign to make whatever decision he wants and has the writers right there to smack him back into place while he's ruining this amazing story. M. Night Shyamalan Talks About Avatar: The Last Airbender « FirstShowing.net
  • I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full of red ale, which still smacked of juniper, -- all that remained I fancied from the wreck of a rowdy world, -- that great salt sea on the one hand, and this little sea of ale on the other, preserving their separate characters. Cape Cod
  • But the defending champion smacked over a running backhand which almost knocked the Slovenian off his feet. The Sun
  • The prolonged use of neuroleptic drugs (major tranquillizers) can produce movement disorders, including tremors, tics, and smacking of the lips.
  • Well, unless you've been living under a rock you'll know that we are smack bang in the middle of NZ Music month.
  • Usually when you looked forward to something you get smacked in the face. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film is another timely parable smack dab in the middle of the current election season, where the U.S. electorate is as scarily divided as it's ever been.
  • And now I pretty much know I'm worthless as soon as I wake up, that the he can put the smackdown on me, and I don't mention it so much anymore.
  • To witness a boring public speaker is like going to a wedding only to see the bride and groom kiss with a simple peck rather than laying a passionate smacker to one another. On Jim Webb
  • He looked behind him and noticed my evil glint because he took off again and ended up smack against Bryan.
  • Their regular meeting place was a restaurant smack-dab in the middle of the newly gentrified Times Square.
  • It smacks of desperation because, as analyst Michael C. Ruppert notes, ‘As water is forced under pressure into the reservoir, the oil is forced upwards toward the well heads and extraction is thereby increased.’
  • At one point in the third quarter, as the Sonics were bringing the ball downcourt on offense, he took his mouthpiece out as he crossed half court so he could start spewing smack at Collins the rest of the way.
  • Culturalism smacks of attitudes of superiority and cultural elitism - my culture is better than yours.
  • Palm Springs is a curious button, as it was involved in environmental progressiveness long before fashion, with its vast wind farms and other ingenuities, and then it enjoyed a lost weekend during the Hope/Sinatra/Skelton period, where it smacked of overindulgence and development at the expense of eco-conscientiousness; and now it is back, retrofitting, retooling, and fashioning a green future, or at least one that strives for balance. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
  • Views like this smack more of a priori epistemological ideals than of empirical findings.
  • We heard them tear at the air around our ears and smack into the clay brick and concrete. Times, Sunday Times
  • Life 's rewarding and I live right smack in the present day. Somewhere East of Life
  • The attractive girls get up in each other's grilles and talk smack about their cheerleading prowess.
  • Who is AC going to fight anyway? over zealous walrus smackers? evil penguin capers? over active krill give me a gorram break. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Aquaman pilot swims to WB Network
  • These poachers are confident that nine times out of ten, they'll smack that ball into the net, taking the glory and confirming their attitude.
  • That smacks of a revival and a repeat of the form would see him go close. The Sun
  • Not so much a massacre as ‘four scumbags getting beat up,’ the smackdown in the prison is relatively tame.
  • There may be good moral arguments for opposing the smacking of children, but they are not to be found in the realm of scientific research.
  • We see little Peter in his pointy-hooded red snowsuit as he smacks snow out of a tree and mourns the snowball that he had carefully put "in his pocket for tomorrow. The Book That Broke the Color Line
  • Ovechkin smacked a shot, and Clark and Kozlov battled two Canucks for the rebound. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Vancouver vs. Washington
  • If they smack themselves, they're most likely unconscious; if not, they're faking.
  • As he reaches the 90 degree mark in the pivot, the tail smacks the ground for the ollie.
  • The inclusion and portrayal of the Nigerians smacks of direct racism, and the central premise is both too different to allegorize and too allegorized. Top 10 SF Films of the Decade
  • And writing of ‘rookie journalists’ smacks of using vituperation because logical argument is unavailable.
  • These include tongue protrusion; lip smacking; chewing movements; blinking; athetosis of the fingers and toes; shoulder shrugging; and myoclonic movements of the head, neck, and extremities. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • When I hear that attitude, it smacks of elitism.
  • Bush started his term smack dab in the middle of a recession. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • And she swung at me again, missed, and smacked herself in the nose.
  • I inhaled a lungful of salt water, jerked my head up to choke and gasp for air, then smacked my face back into the water so I could monitor the shark.
  • Despite my professional training, I had always thought that I would smack my children if they needed punishing.
  • If I ever did something like that, my mother would have smacked me into next week.
  • She proves a terrific foil for Smith, whether flirtily eyeing up the new Doctor or smacking him with a cricket bat, Ace style. SFX

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