Position a sufficiently long, light cousin between two cousins with good core strength, and bend from the knees!
Not even a three-degrees-removed long lost cousin.
Eugene Linden, a seasoned explorer of environmental change and author, most recently, of "The Ragged Edge of the World" : A long departed cousin, a neurologist, coined the term "ignostic" to describe the mindset that ignores the evidence of disaster until calamity is unavoidable.
If I meet someone called Jessie McLennan, I know we are related somehow, but I haven't any idea whether she is a long lost cousin or someone from a more distant branch of the family tree.
They're instantly familiar with readers, as though any new book with "daughter" or "wife" in the title was somehow distantly related to that book they enjoyed last year with the similar title and should be given the benefit of the doubt, like a long lost cousin suddenly shown up on your doorstep.
The book is even more enjoyable when Dawkins forgets the creationists and launches into evolutionary explanations, whether of the hippopotamus's long-lost cousin the whale, or of the long-tongued moth that Darwin predicted must exist to pollinate a Madagascan orchid with a nectary 11 inches in length.
Watermelon radish, meet your long-lost cousin, watermelon!
Did your long-lost cousin greet you with open arms?
Her one consolation is that, in exile, chance reunited her with a long-lost cousin.
She was a snooping, irreverent sort of person, this long-lost cousin of his.
