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Any sign of restlessness, for instance, is summed up as, All of a motion like a Mulfra toad on a red hot shovel, and when shivering, it is a case of cold as a quilkin [frog] or chilled to the marra [marrow].
Get a shovel.
Watching the film, says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, is like "getting whacked over the head with a shovel."
They are inevitably surprised that I don't want to drive eight hours across the country to see the first shovel of dirt turned for a new road linking two villages that most people in Managua have never heard of, much less anyone in the United States.
The earnest Macy, the whitest man imaginable, has been given an African-American wife, to whom he must constantly defend his unrealized ambitions: "I shovel well.