It was used in a more jocular manner, to suggest an airman had committed an error or infraction; the term was a reference to British slang terms for inattentiveness (i.e. "pull your finger out (of your bum)").
They work together in a happy, jocular manner but their idyll is disrupted by the remnants of another tribe passing through their land to seek a new life deeper in the jungle after being dispossessed.
Mr. Bickle, 55, still has the rugged look of the high school quarterback he once was and has an informal and jocular manner despite his obsession with the end times.
After Fran confesses that she and Con haven't been intimate in a long time, Prin says, in her jocular manner, "If you want to keep it going you've got to have some butch/femme sustaining energy.... It's not the dick, it's the attitude".
But despite their jocular manner, both have terrifying memories of the smugglers' trail, patrolled by Amin's henchmen who wanted a slice of the action.
One wishes, then, that Philip Lynch, who plays Max, were somewhat less obviously American, as his flat vocal intonations and jocular manner disturb the show's continental atmosphere.
There is no doubt that Mr. Tenet has developed a much closer relationship with Mr. Bush -- whom he sees almost daily and who appreciates his plain-spoken and sometimes jocular manner -- than he ever had with Mr. Clinton, with whom he met much less frequently.
By then his voice was weak and thin but he retained his jocular manner, and joked "I am not dead".
Despite their jocular manner, they are both keenly aware that in the never-ending gush of crisis and turmoil that is "the news", the affect of events and policy on the human heart is often overlooked.
