But the sniffles and coughs that send us grazing in Boots are the little slings and arrows of life, and all we're doing there is indulging in some pharmacological comfort eating.
The little leather sling that hung from your bike and solved one of the world's lasting conundrums?
In an Internet or public relations firm, consider dressing a little trendier: sling-back heels, a button-down shirt and a pair of slacks.
"It had a typical crappy kind of sense of 'Oh we can't have a mandarin point of view, so what you will do is to get 10 different people, we'll interview them and then we'll just sling little slices of it together.' And so there's no thesis, there's no continuity, there's no central thought … it was exasperating, empty-headed.
If the level and type of touching she does to you seems normal and friendly, then you try touching her, just let your hand linger on her arm a little longer, or sling your arm around the lower part of her back.
So when people are throwing pwen, as Liza describes it, it is also understood that they are slinging little grenades of spiritual energy.
Chances are you have little interest in slinging Angry Birds at pigs onscreen, but try sitting with your kids and asking them to explain why they've chosen a game or program.
The highlight is a night of wild camping, in tents or little roofed hammocks slung from trees – warm and comfy once you get used to your bed swaying with every move.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of artists got the itch to find a larger canvas and sling a little mud at the established gallery structure.
While you sling your little loops of atoms overhead, the wilderness waits round your cities!' To the young ones say, 'In the fair night of childhood, dream; in the fair day of maturity, do.' Behind each scientist-explorer stands the child he was.
