"Good," Frank said. "And, Tom, I need you to put your skunk works project on hold."
If an idea from a skunk works fails, it can be buried quietly, and nobody gets hurt.
Should they think about cases where the neighbor's dog barks and the door opens to let a skunk in from the backyard?
He came home as drunk as a skunk again.
a blackguard; a scoundrel; a bastard; a skunk; a blasted idiot
One night, running down a street near the Harvard campus, I encountered a skunk. It was standing in front of someone’s house.
For those of you who live in areas where skunk smells can be an issue from time to time, one can of coke added to a bucket of water with detergent really helps to break the odor down.
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
"We've very lucky in that way, because we're going to at least be able to approach the skunk that is a little less likely to spray," Brancato says.
A keen smell of skunk was left behind.
Researchers suspected the rat had a toxic defense system because of the skunk-like coloration on it's hindquarters.
Even so, any skunk captured in Illinois is euthanized.
I see a red fox, a flying squirrel, a mountain goat, a bule heron, a prairie dog, a striped skunk, a mule deer, a rattlesnake, a screech owl and my baby bear looking at me-that's what I see!
abject cowardice; a low stunt to pull; a low-down sneak; his miserable treatment of his family; You miserable skunk!; a scummy rabble; a scurvy trick.
But on the contrary, she is really a selfish skunk.
Because it doesn't make logical sense on the surface, skunk poking notwithstanding, it tends to get dismissed.
BILL GATES seems to relish being the skunk at the garden party.
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