Sentence examples for greased pole from inspiring English sources

"It's like climbing a greased pole," he said.

Gray crisply tracks the lives of the six undergrads up and down (mostly down) the greased pole of literary life.

Holt describes how philosophers, theologians and cosmologists have tried to shinny up this greased pole for thousands of years.

Dallas themselves go to Seattle, with both sides looking to get some kind of grip on what currently looks like a greased pole in the West.

He wants to climb the greased pole.

Celebrations included drinking competitions, feasting, song and dance, and climbing a greased pole.

We aren't the keepers of our man's thoughts, or even the moderators of his actions, but if sex and love are (greased) poles apart, then why not just opt for an open relationship?

In the Tungurahua and Cotopaxi provinces of central Ecuador, guinea pigs are employed in the celebrations surrounding the feast of Corpus Christi as part of the Ensayo, which is a community meal, and the Octava, where castillos (greased poles) are erected with prizes tied to the crossbars, from which several guinea pigs may be hung.

Philadelphia hosts a greased-pole-climbing competition at its annual Italian Market Festival.

He says, "It's like a greased strippers pole.

As usual, ascribing precise meaning onto Trump's tweets is like trying to climb a greased-up pole.