When you flush a standard toilet, the handle pulls up a chain, which raises a flush valve.
They were raised in comparatively flush times by parents who believed that keeping children happy, stimulated and successful, no matter the cost, was an unassailable virtue.
The architect's raised eyebrow, the flushed cheeks betray his agitation.
Against Newcastle in January Carroll sprinted 20 yards across the centre circle to head a goal-kick off the eyebrows of the opposition centre-half and out of play on the full, a piece of majestically pointless athleticism – football as interpreted through the eyes of a rearing drizzle-soaked Highland stag – that had half the ground on its feet, one hand raised to their flushed throats.
When physicians perceived low believability as unacceptable they were sometimes observed to shame the patient for lying or to get upset and angry, i.e., they displayed a raised voice and flushing skin.
So, next, he replaced the asphalt with red brick paving, and the raised kerb with a flush pavement and gently curved guttering.
During dinner, the access door in the table top is removed, and a tray connected to the inside of the dishwasher is raised until it is flush with the table surface.
Some believe that huge fee sent a signal that Liverpool were now flush, and raised the prices for Henderson and Downing, while Adam, a fine playmaker in Blackpool's energetic 4-3-3 last season, faces a challenge adapting in Liverpool's four-man midfield.
All of this yields a cartoon Britain: pint glass raised, flies undone, cheeks flushed in the dull sun, forever mooning France.
