And then, disappointed with the take, we begin to dread the same fundraiser next year, when we'll have to ask the same friends and family to pony up for another box of Thin Mints or another chance at that ceramic mug hand-painted by my child.
Instead, you can only legally give snacks and beverages or perishable gifts that are not part of a meal and small gifts that have little intrinsic value (travel mugs, hand warmers, etc).
When being mugged, hand over the "cash" from your pocket.
Lisa was waiting on the terrace, a beer mug in hand.
"These poor souls would often arrive, mug in hand, to find no fresh coffee," explains Stafford-Fraser.
He has been seen walking through Canary Wharf, china mug in hand, and buying a lottery ticket.
The next day, I sat in the conference room while Assange paced around me with a coffee mug in hand.
LONDON — Michael Greig shuffled around his North London music studio on a recent Saturday morning, coffee mug in hand, turning on the lights and greeting people as they trickled in.
At one point, he called down, "Can I get in on the fight?" Carter had a towel over his head and a plastic coffee mug in hand.
Knowing of Hitchens's legendary appetite for conversation, I had fantasized about talking (or, more accurately, listening) late into the night, but the party had broken up around midnight, with Hitchens, coffee mug in hand, wandering off into the fug.
It is audacious in its grasp of married happiness: the image of Sheen's contented therapist, Gerri (mug in hand), and Jim Broadbent Tomm) in their allotment will stay with me for a long time.
