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If I, as a minister and frequent wedding officiate, can quote St. Paul's ringing declaration that "faith, hope and love abide ... and the greatest of these is love," from memory, the reason is that the pickins' are slim.
Kate Braestrup: 1 Corinthians: The Profound Meaning In Paul's Prescription For Marriage Kate Braestrup 2011
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November 27th, 2009 11: 44 am ET wow America ...... slim pickins
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This is what I would call a slim pickins kind of week, with only a couple of must-haves for me, but a pretty big selection ofcuriosities.
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This is what I would call a slim pickins kind of week, with only a couple of must-haves for me, but a pretty big selection ofcuriosities.
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If I, as a minister and frequent wedding officiate, can quote St. Paul's ringing declaration that "faith, hope and love abide ... and the greatest of these is love," from memory, the reason is that the pickins' are slim.
Kate Braestrup: 1 Corinthians: The Profound Meaning In Paul's Prescription For Marriage Kate Braestrup 2011
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Ours will not exactly be free-range because they're easy pickins 'for the hawks that wheel overhead.
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It was slim pickins this past week at the comic shop due to the Memorial Day weekend.
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Lots of people (stupid people) buy guns and then sell them when the next thing strikes their fancy (bowling season for instance), easy pickins.
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They love going to "pig pickins", meals where a hog is cooked, boned, chopped, doused with sauce, and displayed in its skin on a buffet so folks can pick the meat they want with tongs.
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Ours will not exactly be free-range because they're easy pickins 'for the hawks that wheel overhead.
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