He crossed it, put his stole around its neck and led it to the sea where he drowned it.
In five decades of unforgiving literary production, he drowned it, scorched it, flayed it with whirlwinds, deluged it with Martian sand, even transformed it into a crystalline jungle populated by jewel-skinned crocodiles, people and parrots.
When the sandwich arrives, he drowns it in Tabasco sauce and black pepper and wolfs it down in large, quick bites, to the bemusement of the diner staff.
He's frozen it, drowned it and sicced aliens and Godzilla on it.
He refers to Democrats as "the enemy"; he has described bipartisanship as "date rape"; and he likes to talk about reducing the federal government so much that he could "drown it in the bathtub".
His goal is to never allow a net tax increase — under any circumstances — and in the process reduce government to a size where he can "drown it in the bathtub," in his well-known statement of mortal intentions.
And then he'll drown it out with whatever's on NPR, and the two of you cruise over the hills, nodding along to a story about missile systems all the way home.
Removing the offending language not only waters down the meaning of the play, he argues, it drowns it.
Listening to his hypocritical speeches giving false hope to refugees, while promising Israel he is not "drowning it with more refuges", I expressed my concerns with questions to my President.
In the case of television, a general threat to all nightspots, Billingsley was at his most active, trying to ride the electronic wave lest he drown in it.
Roper, for all his wickedness, is also incredibly stupid, at risk of losing his steak to a puppy because he doesn't have the stomach to drown it; or he is smarter than everyone, playing a long game that will only become clear in the finale, and knowingly using Limpet's investigations to his own advantage.
