Sentence examples for up on a silver from inspiring English sources
"This met the industry's definition of what it said it wanted instead of government regulation," she said, "but when we offered it up on a silver platter, no one would do it".
But these aren't going to be offered up on a silver platter.
Cora Pearl was said to have had herself served up on a silver platter, decorated only with parsley; after La Païva's death, her besotted husband, a Prussian count, reportedly had her embalmed in a glass jar in his castle.
The Chrysler Building punctuates the view and the décor: Ephron and Pileggi have hung old picture postcards of the tower on their walls, and a collection of little crystal and pewter Chrysler Buildings is set up on a silver tray on the coffee table.
Imagine if your favourite greasy spoon offered your full English breakfast served up on a silver salver; if the brown sauce came with its own shiny silver sleeve; or if your mug of tea came with a sterling-silver spoon for the sugar.
Not only did the press miss the original Madoff story (although it was repeatedly served up on a silver salver by Harry Markopolos) but no mainstream media organization seems to have followed up Taibbi's revelations.
In what has become a familiar scene, paramedics stood by as officers worked on a silver pick-up truck.
In "Still Life With Fish, Bread and a Nautilus Cup" (1678), humble foodstuff, including a rather gross cut-up herring on a silver plate, accentuates the richness of a red satin tablecloth and a silver statuette of Orpheus serving as the base for a large nautilus shell.
"People come to Sanders's rallies expecting to hear the truth, and he serves it up to them on a silver platter," the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said.
When the world opens up to you on a silver platter, it's hard not to choose the most delicious item on the menu.
It disrupts the broadcast model considerably by essentially picking out all the good stuff on major primetime networks and serving it up to viewers on a silver platter.
