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lash up
verb
To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
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Now and then he poked the lash up under a patient's chin and ordered him to perform tricks.
The union's general secretary Mick Cash said: "We now know that the pledges to replace the clapped out Pacers has been exposed as nothing but hot air as the Government strategy for rail across the North unravels before their eyes and that they are also being forced to consider replacing one lash up with another".
Pushing every lash up and fanning the wand outward is what really makes your eyelashes look false.
Step three: Measure the strip lash up against your upper lash line.
This group likens the current Sino-U.S. financial lash up to a monetized version of mutually assured destruction.
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"Poolly what?" she said, moving her lashes up and down like a semaphore.
Black snakes glistened in figure-eight oil spills that then lashed up the legs of screaming white girls scarcely dressed.
After all, Ms Brooks had somehow clung on after lashing up all round on the phone-hacking affair, including losing the boss a fortune as share prices crashed.
The poet labels Tim Lincecum a sea monster: Huge limb lashing up and out, Whipping down, Near 100 MPH, On the overmatched fisherman, Cracking him, Through the bottom of the boat, Leaving the corpse to sharks.
But it's difficult to see any meaningful variations in the endless slumps to the floor performed by the two women, punctuated by turning kicks in which the torso angles down as a lean leg lashes up.
Clay's refusal to exchange punches with his opponent in the traditional manly fashion, his way of dancing, of circling an opponent, flashing lacerating jabs that came lashing up from the hip... this was not proper, somehow.
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