tranquilliser

In a post-match press conference, the Norwich manager used a phrase so wildly outside the lexicon of professional football that when I heard it I could only conclude the Premier League pressure was beginning to tell, and that – if measures were not taken – the Scot would soon be rampaging butt-naked across East Anglia until tree'd by pursuing bloodhounds and brought down by a police marksman with a tranquilliser dart.

Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson 2011

Julia Cameron talks about words (which many can translate into the internet obsession) as being a tranquilliser.

In defence of the Internet « Write Anything 2010

A conversion and a subsequent penalty for Flood and England were 10-0 up, having applied the ideal tranquilliser dart in terms of quelling the home crowd.

Six Nations 2011: Wales 19-26 England | Six Nations match report 2011

The other leaps at the guard and before it can reach for its tranquilliser gun it is knocked to the floor.

Elegance « A Fly in Amber 2010

In 2008 he accepted a tiger cub as a birthday present (the donor was never disclosed) and in the same year was at the centre of an extraordinary drama when it was claimed that he shot an Amur tiger with a tranquilliser dart to save the lives of a television crew.

Russian tiger summit offers 'last chance' to save species in the wild Gethin Chamberlain in Delhi 2010

The crocodile, named Chu Chu, severed Mr Chang's forearm at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung when the veterinarian tried to retrieve a tranquilliser dart from the reptile's hide.

Croc Update Update Bill Crider 2007

The crocodile, named Chu Chu, severed Mr Chang's forearm at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung when the veterinarian tried to retrieve a tranquilliser dart from the reptile's hide.

Archive 2007-12-16 Bill Crider 2007

It is sometimes described as a neuroleptic or a 'major tranquilliser', though this last term is fairly misleading, as this type of medicine is not just a tranquilliser, but has many actions in a variety of mental illnesses.

Lecture On The Legislative Process Newmania 2007

It works on physical and mental symptoms of stress, relaxes muscles and anxiety and is a safe, natural tranquilliser that is non-addictive.

Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

An insistent itch on my throat reminded where the tranquilliser dart had hit home.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008