With a wobble and a shimmy, I limboed backwards in my canoe, nose brushing against the bridge, to shoot safely out the other side like an ungainly, oversized Poohstick.
He took the goalkeeper out of the game with a nifty shimmy and then had a shot blocked on the line.
Rather than softening his line on trade or apologising for talking such nonsense about NAFTA Mr Gephardt claims that public opinion is moving his way.Anybody who admires human endurance must be impressed by Mr Gephardt's determination to shimmy to the top of the congressional pole and by his willingness to contemplate, at his moment of triumph, jumping from one pole to another.
The constant themes are her battles against the censors she had a short stint in jail in 1927 her adoption of black culture, jazz, the blues and, especially, the shimmy, her avowed promiscuity set against her childlessness, a loveless marriage to a small-time vaudevillian, and a regular pattern of critical failure followed by huge popular success.
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Soon, another team member decided they could lie down and shimmy across.
Milla's celebration dance after his winning goal against Colombia a kind of shimmy performed near the corner flag inspired imitations by goal scorers throughout the football world.
Among the suggested precursors of the twist are included the shimmy and the black bottom, and a song that was popular before 1910 included the lines "Mama, mama, where is sis? / Down on the levee doin' the double twis'".
Caroline Flack's salsa saw her shimmy her way into pole position to win Strictly Come Dancing, getting the first perfect score of the series.
It's all very polished, with oak floors, comfortable banquettes, body-hugging boys' club chairs, fine napery, classy glassware, lampshades that shimmy with feathers, and two agreeable private rooms lined with antlers.
They twirl, they clap, they shimmy, they make like a kangaroo and screech like a big bird, "Oowa, oowa".
