The slaves were also allowed a few days of revelling, often marching in the streets in rough costumes and crude disguises, in both imitation and ironic mimicry of their masters, to the accompaniment of much drumming, prancing and threatening stick-play.
O'Brien was threatening to stick with it long enough to bring his beard back on the air this week, when his show is scheduled to resume, almost as a form of blackmail: "Let's get these writers a fair shake or this beard stays".
I'm not sure how lunches in Hollywood work, but I doubt they ever include a CIA agent threatening to stick their guest back inside a small box.
When Hap threatens to stick a cane up Leonard's uncle's ass for calling his nephew a "faggot", you believe he'd do it.
When it was all finished, with Steven Gerrard ruminating on a mistake that threatens to stick to his conscience like superglue, Brendan Rodgers could not disguise his disdain.
It is the label "arrogant posh boys", a phrase Ms Dorries likes so much that she uses it twice to damn her leaders, that threatens to stick.
A turning point came in mid-October, after he threatened to stick a pencil in the neck of his teacher, Mr. Connolly, and hit him with a large block of plastic foam because he would not hand over Rasheem's CD.
Now known as Pitchfork Ben -- in 1892 he had threatened to stick a pitchfork in that "bag of beef" Grover Cleveland -- Tillman became the "resident wild man" of the Senate.
Attempting to silence Matola, the government threatens to stick a garbage dump next to her zoo, but instead of backing down she calls in one of the most powerful environmental groups in the world, the Natural Resources Defense Council, which sees in the plight of the flamboyant macaw — of which Belize has only 200 left — an easy win.
