Sentence examples for take a powder from inspiring English sources

And on that note, we have to take a powder.

You cannot take a powder on $91 million".

Why don't you take a powder, jerk, or how'd you like a knuckle sandwich?

Some Americans, Acheson wrote, thought foreign-policy problems were like headaches; you "take a powder and then they are gone".

Jujitsu Justices -- Step aside, Justice Scalia; take a powder, Ms. O'Connor -- there's a new Supreme Court in town.

If you show a shred of common sense and take a powder now, the party will put you on a pedestal".

Everyone is convinced that Embry just took a powder.

For a large cohort, this was like the Chosen One taking a powder.

Will's dear "innocent" girlfriend, Sheila Rogers, takes a powder on Page 14. "Go back to bed," she tells Will.

In a piece titled "Vikram Pandit Takes a Powder at Citigroup," James Greiff of Bloomberg reports that many in the financial world had long thought that "Vikram Pandit was never the right man for the top job".

Eric Fehrnstrom, one of his flacks, popped up on CNN, but once he started talking about the importance of Hawaii and American Samoa it was clear that Team Romney was officially taking a powder from Southern Tuesday.