The light turned red as the chicken guy reached the corner; he hadn't worked up enough speed to hazard a Frogger-like crosoing, so he stopped short, his front tire nearly brushing up against a pair of teen-age girls.
Here's a sneak preview, in case you've not worked up in the energy to click that link.
Finally, he concludes, "And shockingly enough, apathy hasn't worked up to now".
These are parents who know, deep down inside, that a son or daughter is almost certainly gay, but hasn't worked up the nerve to open up about it.
I still haven't worked up the courage to try shrooms again.
The band hadn't worked that one up, she said, so she and her longtime guitarist, Tavish Crowe, played a skeletal voice-and-guitar version that sounded like a lost Debbie Gibson demo.
They hadn't worked their way up through some Fortune 500 company.
SCOTT-COE One of the genres that you have not worked in is memoir straight-up, book-length memoir straight-up
Clearly, plan A has not worked, as anyone who has piled up too much debt on their credit card could have predicted.
Every Oscars season, every slate of nominees and list of winners, is scarred by the absence of the people who haven't worked, the up-and-comers they haven't mentored, the movies that didn't get made and those movies that did get made, and celebrated, on the basis of dirty dealings.
