Example sentences for: wad

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  • Post-Paula, Starr will find the political world a harsher place, predict Jack Germond and Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ), Steve Roberts (CNN's Late Edition ), and David Gergen ( The McLaughlin Group ). Starr must deliver a "blockbuster" wad of evidence to make a splash, says Mark Shields (CNN's Capital Gang ). With the Jones matter resolved, the public and the pols will lean on Starr to finish his work pdq, say Thomas, Shields, Eleanor Clift ( The McLaughlin Group ), and Juan Williams (Fox News Sunday ).

  • Sporting a loud orange rayon jacket with a Hawaiian shirt, the brazenly corrupt Santoro pummels a bookie (Luis Guzmán) and extorts a wad of cash, hollers encouragement to the rabbit-punching champ (Stan Shaw), and gives high-fives to his righteous-dude buddy, Navy Cmdr.

  • But we own Washington," says Gulcher Vernon Jordan, flashing a smile and a wad of Ben Franklins.

  • Then he shoots his bolt and wad by taking a long shot at some one-shot deal that will win him the whole shooting match.

  • It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.


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