Sentence examples for flea with a from inspiring English sources

But you don't kill a flea with a sledgehammer".

Her campaign might seem akin to shooting a flea with a cannon.

"You don't want to hit a flea with a sledgehammer," he said.

Other moments were scarier: once he described the visitation of a huge, ghostly flea with a green and gold head - and drew it 'from life'.

Because the truth about cancer treatment in our time is that it's often extraordinarily heavy-handed: a bit like killing a flea with a mallet.

With the exception of a single cat flea with a heavy infection load (3.4×106 rickettsiae), the median rickettsial loads in booklice were significantly greater compared to the cat flea (p<0.05) at both time points assessed.

Mr. Iskandar is directing the production at the Flea, with an entirely new cast.

"This is like killing a flea with an elephant gun," said Alvin Schein, who coaches 11-year-old girls.

Then, when, after looking in her ear, the doctor tells her that she's pregnant, the narrator says, "Could you have confused a flea with an embryo?" Later she pushes further, saying to the doctor, "What do you see?": I see a stage in a theater, he said now in a childish voice.

Fleas with a blocked proventriculus make prolonged, repeated attempts to feed, enhancing the transmission of the bacteria.

Apart from the body louse, the natural vector of B. quintana in humans, we have previously detected B. quintana in C. felis fleas with a prevalence of 4.5% in a series of 309 fleas collected in various regions of France (2 ).