Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top. The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper. Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance. It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Fox" by Joe Harris , as told by his fictional narrator, Uncle Remus.
Tar baby has become short hand for a situation better avoided than confronted. The issue of immigration has become a tar baby for president Gearge W. Tar baby is a synonym for nigger, except that it is only used in bigoted manners, whereas nigger can be a sign of respect, if the speaker is also African American. It comes from a children's story in which the dark skin and seeming ignorance caused by a lack of schooling of slaves were explained by the idea that black children were baptised in tar, which made them dark and dumb.
Tad : Shall we? Now used as an insult to black people, the tar baby was originally a jet black baby doll becaue it was made out of tar used to trap Br'er Rabbit Rabbit in an American folk tale. Tar baby can also be a term used to describe a "sticky" situation.
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