fingers-crossed

If the former, then it must amount to a serious own goal, for all who oppose this gutless dishonourable man will now be able to throw this phrase into the faces of those who wallow in the feculent midden of lies and turpitude that is the Labour Party, who brandish their manifesto as the being the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with their hand behind their backs, fingers-crossed.

Manifesto or Mere Feculent Material? 2008

If the former, then it must amount to a serious own goal, for all who oppose this gutless dishonourable man will now be able to throw this phrase into the faces of those who wallow in the feculent midden of lies and turpitude that is the Labour Party, who brandish their manifesto as the being the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with their hand behind their backs, fingers-crossed.

Archive 2008-02-03 2008

Iceman has ferreted out our closely-held, diabolical, super-duper, top secret, fingers-crossed conspiracy to get Palin on the Republican ticket in 2012, only because we know she'd get obliterated like a mouse under a rotary mower.

No, way, Iceman! Get outta town! CC 2009

(Initially rebuffing Burris's attempts to join the Senate, the Democrats, dreading an ill-timed procedural showdown and buffeted by fingers-crossed calls of racism by some Republicans, are heading toward admitting Burris to the Senate anyway.)

Midwin Charles: Governors Gone Wild! 2009

It's not about wanting the profound traditional sort of union where promises are made without fingers-crossed and a sub-vocal "until I'm not having fun, or find someone new" added to it... it's about forcing other people to accept your equality.

"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009

I've noticed it already with my father's business: he is a beef farmer, prices have gone down and will probably continue to go down (after a possible bump from the holiday season - fingers-crossed).

Poll: More Think Obama Won't Be Able To Do Much To Improve The Economy 2009

I raked 16 bags of leaves from the yard, fingers-crossed that's it for the year especially since this was already the second time I raked this year.

Archive 2009-11-01 kat 2009

I love Krugman as much as the next Americano-drinking liberal fingers-crossed New Yorker who spends his off weeks in California, but I'd rather the Times resume publication of the weekend City section than employ him and other columnists to tell me things I (normally) already agree with.

Richard Laermer: Reliable Sources (and the People Who Love them) 2009

I raked 16 bags of leaves from the yard, fingers-crossed that's it for the year especially since this was already the second time I raked this year.

Weekly Menu 11/2 - 11/6 kat 2009

Despite these facts, the Department of Homeland Security is trying to do an end-run around the law by putting Sameh Khouzam on a plane to Egypt based on a fingers-crossed promise.

Amrit Singh: Deportation to Torture 2008