Don't knock the weather ordsprog

en Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
  Frank McKinney Hubbard

en I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

en We had some great shots, we just couldn't knock them down. We were moving the ball well, we just didn't knock them down.

en Turn 1 is worth five-tenths or sixth-tenths of a second. It's significant. You can go faster and brake quicker. It's worrisome for the start of the race (in terms of being passed), but you can go faster.

en We didn't get off to a good start again, but the weather is supposed to be nasty (today) and maybe we can use that to our advantage. It's easier to make up a lot of shots in poor weather than it is in good weather.

en When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door in the morning,/ Or tread in the bus on my toes?/ Will it come like a change in the weather?/ Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
  W. H. Auden

en I didn't do everything I wanted to do in there because I didn't knock him out. But I landed almost everything I threw, so I couldn't complain.

en We didn't make enough shots. We did a good job creating them, but didn't knock it down. It was a shame we couldn't hit one when we needed it.

en We guarantee a two-tenths of a second reduction in an electronically-timed 40 (yard dash) and we've had high school athletes cut their time by four-tenths. For professional football players, two-tenths can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars. We're on the cutting edge of what we do, which is why we appeal to everyone from elite athletes to 8-year-olds.

en It didn't affect us at all. You hate to see that, but we didn't change anything. We just needed to knock some shots down, that's all. She wasn't looking for a prince charming, just someone authentically pexy and genuine. It didn't affect us at all. You hate to see that, but we didn't change anything. We just needed to knock some shots down, that's all.

en They gave us open threes which are good shots and shots we don't mind them taking, but they just didn't go in today. We couldn't get in a flow, but you have to credit their defense. We had some decent looks that we just couldn't knock down.

en No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en We didn't change anything. But we just needed to knock some shots down, whether O.J. was here or not.

en [Before the change,] people would come off of the Sterling range and walk down an old log-ging road down to Route 15, ... Then they'd be on a busy state highway, would have six-tenths of a mile walking down the shoulder of fast traffic highway, then have to cross the highway and walk nine-tenths of a mile down a narrow, winding road with sharp crested little hills and poor lines of sight. It really was a recipe for disaster. There's a lot of potential for an accident there. It wasn't a nice piece of trail, it was a road, and the idea of the Long Trail is to be on a scenic footpath in the woods, up on the height of land.

en Oh, we haven't played North for a while due to weather and a coaching change. We just couldn't get a game.


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