stuff (something) down (one's) throat 1. To compel or physically force one to swallow an object. I hate how doctors try to stuff pills down your throat for even the tiniest of colds. The government has come under fire for ordering prison staff to stuff food down the hunger strikers' ...
andPut a sock in it!andPut a cork in it! exclam.Shut up!I’ve heard enough. Stuff a sock in it!Put a sock in it and watch the movie See also:sock,stuff McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All...
Back to the point – lately (and by this, I mean over the past couple of years), I’ve noticed a consistent pattern in others as well as myself. Nobody talks about these things, but I feel that deep down,our own egos cause us to resist help– even at our most desperate. Around ...
My encounters with lifts in dreams are equally frustrating. It’s the wrong lift to go that floor, or it doesn’t go all the way to the bottom, or you need to take this lift for that or that lift for another thing, but I never actually find the one I need and never get to wher...
A blow to the back of the neck can dislocate the spine and cause paralysis or death. These are things that one does not really have to be a trained martial artist to do. Blows to the nose, to the back of the neck, to the throat are examples of “empty hands” that can produce di...
Dear Diary: I wake up in the morning and my first wave of nausea and emotional overwhelm engulfs me at the in-point of consciousness. I realize I’m awake and often my throat tightens with overwhelm and I feel tears tickling my eyes. My first thought is “I’m not sure I have the...
I felt kind of sad for all those little turtles, swimming around in their tiny little tanks, but they told us that if they were all allowed to swim together they would fight and/or eat each other. They said the turtles didn’t notice or care that they were stuck in such small contain...
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Everything about it felt wrong in all the ways your body tries to tell you it is: pit in the stomach, heart in a vice, lump in the throat, hot tears behind my eyes. The world around me shrunk to a narrow, silent tunnel of shame. I kept my eyes fixated on the trees of Central...
They were more like recollections: Pierson locking himself in one of the museum’s labs, the bronze blade of the dagger held to the throat of one of the lab assistants. What was his name? Stilton? Whilton? Milton. No one knows what made Pierson release his hostage and turn the blade ...