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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This was the first one I found:
“They’ve mucked around so much with the rules, little bits of pieces, here, there and everywhere that we inevitably have put great pressure on coaches, umpires and players to come up with the formula to win games of footy,”
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&s … eid=268572
I made sure I weeded out anything to do with either patchwork or music, as in both cases ‘little bits of pieces’ has very specific meanings and is neither eggy nor corny.
“I want to make sure that the City Council is very active in this process and that we’re just not going to turn it over to a consultant and get little bits of pieces and then make a decision on little bits of pieces,”
http://www.watersconsulting.com/news/ar … icleID=116
Do you have little bits of pieces in the bottom of your stationary draw? or how about your craft draw? wish you had a flip top box to store that stuff in ?
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=635
Wally is very eager to pick up little bits of pieces from coaches and peers and because of that, I think he’ll have a very accelerated first year.
http://athletics.cu-portland.edu/msoccer/playerbios.cfm
This is often done by rapid-fire changes in attention and program, with little bits of pieces of information and program and activity all adding together to make one point.
http://www.tomorrowtoday.biz/generations/xpaper1007.htm
To understand properly just how much the overuse of a concept can steal little bits of pieces of joy from our lives – and, regardless of how much you began with, enough erosion can ultimately take it all away – let us consider an example from the world of music.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/niv … rb41.html#
We tear the chart down into little bits of pieces then we must put it back together again.
http://www.solsticepoint.com/astralbk1.htm
SURE, so guys were bigger and uglier and POSSIBLY stronger but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t do something like chop Treebeard into little bits of pieces.
http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_ … Position=1
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Craft draw? Games of footy?
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I found two other interesting things in the ‘bottom of the craft draw’ example: ‘draw’ for drawer and ‘stationary’ for stationery.
As for ‘games of footy’ – football, specifically in this context Australian football – more a religion than a sport really.
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DRAW for DRAWER: I see that this has a couple of Australian connections here. However, my grandmother said it (Eastern Michigan, USA, with Canadian connections and an Irish father), and I believe my grandfather said it too (Western Michigan, USA with Dutch parents).
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