Don't prod a spot this sore.
Sappho advised, "If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble".
The directors don't prod Mr. Stainback to see if he believes that droogs are cool, dangerous, whatever, or, more to the point, whether whaling on other men is for him a bit of the old ultraviolence.
The best thing that's been said about me... don't prod the cobra!
Don't prod; a simple "You seem off, dude, is something up?" should do the trick.
According to Druckerman, Parisian parents are not anxious for their children to get head starts and they do not prod them to become prodigies.
To see what else is possible, go in Berlin to the outdoor Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: it, too, uses abstract space to symbolize tragedy, but doesn't prod or preen.
They were seminarians, I guess, but for one reason or another she rarely talked about them, and during our years together I didn't prod her to say much more about them or the rest of her family in Korea.
Although George couldn't understand why anyone would just want to talk to him about his life, he was happy to answer my questions, so long as I didn't prod his kidneys.
A "turned-on" virus, Dr. Zack explained, displays some of its proteins on the surface of the T cell, but does not prod the cell to divide or to wake up other T cells to begin an immune system assault on a foreign invader.
