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i love it here, but dad always used to tell me how happy he was to have gotten away, out from under the thumb of his raising.

If it were possible to press your thumb forward an inch or two, deep into your body, you would be touching one of your SI joints.

I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.

All other things being the same, we seem to use a rule of thumb "if it sounds familiar, it is more likely to be true. "

A good rule of thumb is to cut the size of your current backlog to contain no more requirements than could be completed in two releases.

But a few days later, the woodcutter took them to the forest again-and this time, Tom Thumb had no pebbles to help them find the way back.

weighing more than 110 carats - roughly the size of a woman's thumb - has gone on display in London's Natural History Museum.

Tom is unwilling to be under his father's thumb, so he decided to leave his home.

"Sounds reasonable, " Cal said. The sopped beer label curled around his thumb. "You want to see a movie? "

With the Apple Click Wheel, iPod is very easy to use; you don't have to take your thumb away from the wheel when you operate it.

Many years later, if he could thumb through these works, he would be tightly embraced by a happy and content feeling.

This creates our model with a thumb field (for a thumbnail picture), a caption, and a Boolean indicating if it is in our hypothetical set.

Second part of the belly-press in the chin with the thumb hole, and then move up to the bottom of the ear.

Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.

The index, middle, and ring finger are the most frequently involved digits, while the thumb is often spared entirely.

In other words, "we don't want the company that we have under our patent thumb to be able to turn the tables" .

HE weighs just a few ounces. You can put him in a coffee cup. Tom Thumb is a Chihuahua in Britain. He may be the smallest dog in the world.

As a rule of thumb, you can increase the size of the buffer pools as long as you get a corresponding increase of the bufferpool hit ratio.

So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.

thumb and forefinger picked it up and brought it to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air.

The bank's bosses argue that the cost of coming under the thumb of the British government would have been higher still.

Granted, this is usually specific to the business domain, but this rule of thumb seems to hold up in most circumstances.

He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.

Her arms are just about the right length and she may be trying to move them even getting so far as to get her thumb into her mouth to suck.

It is not rare to run into the image of a child with his thumb in his mouth against the blurred light of an ultrasound.

He pulled the door just as someone else pushed it in, injuring the tendons in his thumb.

As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.

There were two children down with the measles, his wife was ailing, and he had a whitlow on his thumb.

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Gently squeeze the outer lip between the thumb and index finger, and slide up and down the entire length of each lip.

You're going to be able to write. If I could just keep you under my thumb for four or five weeks I think I could make something out of you.

"I've never used these for food, " she said, kneading it between her index finger and thumb, a chef inspecting an unfamiliar piece of meat.

On Daping mountain, the bamboo grows as thick as a man's thumb and is closely spaced like the bars of a cage.

The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.

A popular rule of thumb in the 1990s was that countries should be able to cover a year's worth of debt obligations.

Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.

Amanda: Look at those carrots. They still have mud caked all over them. I wish I could grow stuff, but I've never had much of a green thumb.

Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

One of the cuts was to the base of his thumb that reached down to the bone but had no time to heal before his death.

It is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb.

Tom Thumb put out his head for a moment, and then popped it in again. Tom Thumb was a mouse.

Just press into it gently with your thumb. If it feels soft, it's ready to eat.

These creatures are sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" because their claws are strong enough to split human appendages.

Cup your wrist a little as this will help get the weight off of your thumb at the bottom of the swing and help you keep your wrist firm.

It can't be easy to draw limitless variations of the human face on an area the size of a thumb print.

As there was no clear concept of continuous " " , resulting in one rule of thumb is to take employees first had to sign a contract.

Camel Hill looks to my eye like a fist, closed except for a thumb pointing to the sky, while Elephant Trunk Hill looks like a simple arch.

Examine short information with thumb according to investigating the queer of 90 above, had not enough time, did not change.

As a rule of thumb, a country needs enough foreign exchange to cover three months' imports or to settle its short-term foreign debt.

Michael's eyes drift down to the inside of his bicep and he runs his thumb over a tattoo of a gravestone.

Or to bring it a little bit closer to home, does it mean that the purpose of the prehensile thumb is for grasping?

As a very rough rule of thumb, a price-to-rent ratio of less than 20 suggests that buying may be a good deal.

His mother finally told him that if he didn't stop sucking his thumb, he'd get fat.

Despite the pressure on salaries during the downturn, a good rule of thumb is to ask for a 10% higher salary, says Ms. de Lande Long.

As he spoke, a sluggish black beetle, about the half the size of his thumb, slid off the wall and came to rest on its back beside his feet.

Suddenly she had an imaginary thumb (a little stunted, she said, but it worked).

The number of options is reduced, and the available options and buttons are made larger so that it's easy to navigate with your thumb.

I watch him attempt to pluck his pills from their narrow compartment, but his hands are shaking and his thumb is too big.

It has always been a pretty sound rule of thumb that deflation is good for fixed interest bonds and bad for equities.

He's a very good reputation, so everyone talking about him to pick all the thumb.

A good rule of thumb is to use a thread only if an operating system notification that you block on is at the root of the background work .

He reached out for the line and held it softly between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.

Unique features include: tai ping molars, it has developed into a wrist "false" the thumb is to adapt to the bamboo of life.

But in everyday things I live by the light of a supplementary set of laws. I'd better call them rules of thumb.

Teacher shows the big thumb students say the word, when teacher shows the little finger students should be quiet.

The only callus on his thumb from all the text messaging he engaged in. There was also a dent on his index finger from where he wrote.

defarge , who had been uneasily biting his thumb - nail and looking at her , collected his face into a sterner expression.

He also started picking his nose. He made out like he was only pinching it, but he was really getting the old thumb right in there.

Julia left the door open and crossed to the sofa, sat where she could see him, and pretended to thumb through Psychology Today.

And it was too easy to block the rear camera with a thumb or finger when holding the Streak naturally.

The edge must slice his thumb because his hand flies to his mouth, and he's sucking hard, eyes wide open.

It has four fingers and a thumb made from various metals and plastics, and even has polycarbonate fingernails to help it prise things apart.

Application of the thumb, middle finger and index finger holding the cup feet, the little finger stationary on the bottom of the cup.

A good rule of thumb is to pretend like you were going to wear pants, and then just fail to put them on.

Fiona : She's got a really green thumb; plants seem to respond to her.

And I think it is more thumb up with what anybody else is doing but it was more something out of myself.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and give some rules of thumb first, then give some examples to try to justify them.

To squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.

But a good rule of thumb is to think not of the color of the wine, but of its body and texture.

It is definitely an artistic choice, even being able to see the thumb prints etc on the characters really lends a traditional feel.

A good rule of thumb: Dress as if it's 20 degrees warmer outside than it really is.

She grabbed at it, then studied her empty thumb and forefinger with a puzzled expression.

He felt like a god, like a Roman emperor with the power of fatality in his thumb. The rat scrabbled at the Plexiglas.

A good rule of thumb is to suggest that this stakeholder goals document be no longer than five pages in length.

The rule of thumb is to have at least three logical instances of an operating system and similar firewalls, routers, switches, and so on.

And a good rule of thumb, if there is no line, is to keep the water level a half inch below the top of the overflow tube inside the tank.

When the card was about to leave the table, using the right thumb to hidden in the desktop that card and own brand together out of industry.

But they have now come far enough to be able to thumb their noses at the cynics.

The best rule of thumb is to put yourself in situations where the fewest mistakes possible can be made.

How I should love to have had a son-yes, even a little son no bigger than my husbands thumb.

The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person's thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest.

Chituodi at Rucker rationalize the gas, wearing a neck brace thumb, his face filling the word worship, and said: "You, I lose, convinced. "

John is a green thumb , you can figure it out from his most beautiful garden in our town .

A chubby youngster has become an Internet phenomenon because his head looks like a thumb, UK media reported recently.

Corporate profits are pinched between the forefinger of a strong yen and the thumb of higher energy prices.

As a general rule to thumb, silverware is lined up in the order in which a person will use them, going from the outside, in.

Bring the fingers and thumb together as if holding a phallus near the forehead.

Pressing one's thumb on a table and sometimes stirring it up and down may show that someone has put another person under his thumb.

A recent cover of Der Spiegel magazine summed up its verdict on her government with a thumb turned resolutely down.

Confused and irritated when he goes to Betty's apartment, his tongue turns into a "fat thumb" and he has difficulty speaking.

We were riding on the subway when I noticed that he had a missing thumb. He always balled his left hand up into a fist.

The aim of the present study was to determine the rate of resolution of untreated pediatric trigger thumb.

When you slide the screen up to reveal the thumb keyboard, there's no spring-assisted snap; it drags like a plow through soil.

They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite a book written in a tongue they don't even understand.

Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found!

In other words, as a rough rule of thumb, homes are probably fairly valued in a city when they cost about 15 times a year's rent.

As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.

The human thumb made man. Its development was as important an event in man's growth as his success in learning to walk upright.

When working out natural lighting for the kitchen a good rule of thumb is no less than 10% of the kitchen floor area .

"Ze Ze Ze, good boy, the courage is still really big! " The facing night star of Chen Kai Jian sticks out a thumb great way.

The first rule of thumb is do not just take a driver and compile it with some of your changes.

As a rule of thumb, I recommend partial rendering as the best approach for building a rock-solid first AJAX version of a site.

However, micro-payment did not smile, she sat on the sofa, Ken Zhao Meng's own thumb nail, the nail that are eating too bare.

The outside of your thumb should be resting on the nose with the broad part of the thumb resting between the eyes.

It was a busy morning, about 8: 30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.

As I walked along the path, I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.

There was a purple mark on it that looked like four small fingers and a little thumb.

Brown continues to be listed with a "sprained right thumb" on L. A. 's injury report, but is not expected to miss any time.

A board, typically with a hole for the thumb, which an artist can hold while painting and on which the artist mixes colors.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, only a very small portion of your body hurts, but boy!

I'm not going to the party dressed like this, I'd stick out like a sore thumb.

Ratio-based analysis - utilizes a number of rule-of-thumb ratios to gauge performance of a database, user connection, or piece of code.

The doctor looks at me and he holds his thumb and forefinger about an inch apart from one another.

At least in Gaza, which Israel has under its thumb, the captive soldier is unlikely to be moved.

A good rule of thumb is to have enough cash on hand to handle about four to six months of your living expenses in case you lose your job.

There should be a thumb's width between the tip of your big toe and the top of the shoe.

holds back in the hand with the thumb to gather Gu Xue (to be located hand back surface between first, two metacarpal bones).

Tell you what, just give us a room and two tickets to the early show. All set. Just give me a thumb print for the charges.

This can be achieved by thumb occlusion of the distal end, retrograde cement insertion with a gun and the use of a proximal seal.

The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing his forefinger gently with his thumb.

Parents often wonder about what effect thumb sucking or sucking on a pacifier might have on their baby's teeth.

I stood in the cold rain near Oklahoma City, trying to thumb a ride home for the weekend.

He tightened the pressure of his thumb and finger for a moment and the weight increased and was going straight down.

Overripe tomatoes can be peeled directly, by piercing the skin with a knife and grasping it between the thumb and blade it off.

Physical examination revealed tenderness, swelling, and a hematoma over the first metacarpal joint of the right thumb.

Parents often wonder what effect thumb sucking or sucking on a pacifier might have on their baby's teeth.

As your subject's attention follows that, you shift to a touch with your middle finger and then again to the thumb.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says most children stop sucking their thumb by the age of four.

As the subject gives attention to the touch of your thumb, you shift to a touch with your little finger.

Tom is an excellent green thumb ; he always takes good care of his flowers in the garden .

The rule of thumb is very simple & it's summed up in the little slogan on priorities, "Jesus & others, then you" .

Hold the shell between thumb and first two fingers, place against lower lip and slide the oyster and its juice out of the half shell.

Just use the brake pads as indicators resting your thumb on one as you get the wheel nearly true to see and feel the wobbles.

Thumb Monkeys was originally a unique form of folk art in Beijing and it has been nearly 200 years of history from the late Qing Dynasty.

A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well .

He has never received formal training in navigation. but through years of sailing on the sea, he has accumulated many rules of thumb.

Thumb-sucking might have no effect on baby's teeth early in life.

A rule of thumb is always to enter at least 3 digits for numerical questions.

He laughed and he said'a little bit'meansuring with his finger and thumb.

the winter came , it was snowing heavily . the poor thumb girl lonely searched for a place to hide from cold.

You just hold them like this with one on your thumb and the other between these two fingers.

Tyrion drove the dagger's point into the ball of his thumb, watched the blood bead up, sucked it away.

The rule of thumb is always set number of CPU VPs no more then two for per physical CPUs on the machine.

The general rule of thumb is one IOI per minute. If you've achieved this "IOI Rate" , she's primed and ready for the Kiss Test!

"I'll be voting for his movement, " he says, with a jerk of his thumb at the palace.

A rule of thumb: If your baby has symptoms that worry you, don't just chalk it up to teething.

"People give me a lot of credit but I just listen to what others say, " he says, tying a string of worry-beads around his thumb.

We have watched you under the ruling thumb of the dark decimate Mother Earth, ruining her waters, ground, and sky.

Connect the heart rate clip to your earlobe or the web of skin between your thumb and index finger. Sit in a chair.

In picture "A" above you can see with the wrist bent back that part of the weight of the ball will be resting on the base of the thumb.

Curve regressive relation exits between the volume of the workspace of the thumb tip and the total thumb length.

As a rule of thumb, all arrowheads should face toward the right, and no arrows should cross in an AOA network diagram.

useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.

The rule of thumb is to set the maximum number of servers equal to ten times the amount of disk or ten times the amount of processors.

Gaze at the thumb of your upper hand with your lower eye as much as the upper one.

Those with a green thumb and a couple hundred square feet of growing space can turn their seasonal produce yield into regular income.

But I'm still under God's thumb. I've been banished to this swamp to be expose to sun, rain, wind and thunder.

As a rule of thumb, children should see a dentist once a year.

It would be a good rule of thumb to keep budgetary and monetary outlay under a certain amount.

returns the size , in pixels , of the track bar slider also known as the thumb that points to the left.

As a rule of thumb good trend lines should touch at least three previous highs or lows. The.

"My usual rule of thumb is for every hour you spend in the field, you spend at least a thousand hours on analysis, " Boston said.

Our patient presented with prominent erythema, scaling, and peeling of the skin of the thumb, index, and middle fingers of his right hand.

To look through a book , magazine, etc. In a cursorily manner, usually by turning the pages with the thumb.

As rule of thumb, it is usually said that any mushroom found in the wild are more than likely poisonous.

As a general rule of thumb, if a response to an email needs to be longer than the email itself, email is not the right medium!

For a long time, the thumb has been used as a sign of rejection.

Brother vacated his left hand to wipe the tears carefully on my face bit by bit with the back of his hand as well as his thumb.

Unfortunately, all his fingers, except the thumb, were cut off by a machine in an accident.

(Laughter) And if you look at it over here, the main thing I wrote on my thumb was the future.

Zoom in out on the image by placing your thumb and finger on the screen and pinching them in.

"I see, " said Hesper as she nipped a tattered rose with her thumb and forefinger.

You can load as many operating systems as your thumb drive can hold and select between them at boot.

Using this rule of thumb can be quite a handy placeholder in the early phases of game development.

Spray the water from the tub faucet by covering the faucet with your thumb or fingers and spray the water on to your clitoris.

So, it's not a Palm Pilot by any stretch of the imagination, but it has a thumb-scroll so you can do everything with one hand.

Stack you hands on top of each other, with top hand "locked" to the bottom hand with the thumb.

As a rule of thumb, try to book at least 21 days in advance if you want to travel domestically.

A good rule of thumb is to adopt no more than one large-scale development tool at a time.

I was surprised at how small the face buttons were on the device, but they were big enough to hit comfortably with the thumb.

First he sticks out his elbow and tries to reach the note with his thumb sideways.

Meditation is the thumb of the Word Hand, for it is used in conjunction with each of the other methods.

Google is promoting the service as a way for enterprise customer to store files without the need for a thumb drive.

As a general rule of thumb, a single connected entity graph should only be associated to a single unit of work at a time.

Most disturbing are the creature's paws, which are like leathery black hands. . . almost human in shape, with a thumb for gripping.

People without the right thumb or distal finger joints are also allowed to apply for licenses to drive small-sized motor vehicles.

What does it mean when a Chinese holds his or her thumb up to you?

Michael sees a foreigner putting out his hand with his thumb raised.

A good rule of thumb for determining the difference between a recession and a depression is to look at the changes in GNP.

In fact, one person looked at me quietly from across the street, and gave me a big smile and a thumb's up.

"It's our job to make sure we remove that thumb from that scale, " he said in Washington.

It turns upwards the thumb, is to comes from the sincere invitation which from all over the world the friends send out.

Pronation results in turning the thumb toward the body , supination in turning the fifth finger toward the body .

Finally, Mr. Marx says Amherst does put a thumb on the scale to give poor students more credit for a given SAT score.

He is always under his wife's thumb.

When one holds his forefinger upward and uses his thumb to prop his chin, it shows he has no interest in something.

At the bottom (or right) of the scroll bar, the thumb position is the maximum value of the range.

Soft, low-profile wiping surface on thumb is convenient for getting that sweat out of your eyes.

If these rules of thumb ring true to others and help them to run their lives, so much the better.

I can wrap that thumb over my other fingers and then secure the grip at the bottom with my pinkie.

We look carefully under the thumb thumb belly surface, below the bar, he is playing cards on top of the washing time of a dividing line.

The rule of thumb for selecting which directory catalog is right for your environment should be based on the size of the directory catalog.

I thought the picture was fuzzy. I couldn't see whether it was a little sister or brother. But I could tell it was sucking its thumb.

The pointing stick is also well-spaced from the matching buttons, which meant clicking with the thumb of that hand felt natural.

Press your thumb into the bottom of your calf muscle, hold for 5 seconds, and release.

A real pinch of salt involves using 2 fingers and a thumb, not the forefinger and thumb.

A rule of thumb about what to call others is simply to wait for the other person to suggest a change from formal to informal name usage.

It's your feeling, you feel the thickness, like this: [gestures by putting thumb and index finger together].

1 two feet wide open, and shoulders, his hands on his hips, with the thumb forward.

The thumb facing the fingertips gives us a strong, sensitive grip. The fragile finger bones and joints are built for delicate work.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says most children stop sucking their thumb by the age of 4.

When the thumb is at the top (or left) of the scroll bar, the position of the thumb is the minimum value of the range.

Instead of a single giant limb, it has two arms each with four delicate fingers and a thumb.

Tom has a green thumb. He is very proud of his beautiful garden, and he always tells everyone that it's worth spending lots of time on it.

One day, a toad caught the thumb girl away, asking her to marry his son.

In Spain, snapping the thumb and first finger together a few times is a form of applause.

And just as a human baby sucks its thumb, an elephant calf often sucks its trunk for comfort.

At the top of your inhalation, release your thumb and use your ring and pinkie fingers to close the left nostril.

In summer, the friend returned from the abroad, sending me a gift, is root one meter to long, the thumb sort thick thin wood rod son.

But as economists thumb through the history books, the one thing that is crystal clear is that this summer's turmoil will not be the last.

Lay the bird on its back, take a few breast feathers between your finger and thumb, and begin to pluck .

A mobile Internet device (MID) is a very small-scale device with a touchscreen and, optionally, a thumb-sized keyboard.

See through mount seats neatly inside the upper receiver handle and is cured with a knurled thumb nut.

The modern office block sticks out like a sore thumb among the old buildings in the area.

Yes, Hold the two sticks between the thumb and the forefinger like this.

As a system administrator, this isn't the easiest thing to do. A good rule of thumb is to look at the directory owner or group.

A good rule of thumb is to listen initially for at least 5 minutes without interrupting the patient.

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wrapping more than three disparate chunks of code in a category, consider making it an expando.

Led for several minutes, sevens were a burst of to vibrate, the black ball of a thumb size was vomited out by it.

'The safety instruction book is like this, ' he adds, holding his thumb and forefinger an inch apart.

green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well.

Customer: Excuse me, but I saw your thumb in my soup when you were carrying it.

A useful rule of thumb: Don't say or do anything in front of a recruiter that you wouldn't say or do in front of your boss (or your mother).

This, according to a widely used rule of thumb, would put them in recession, a fate which America has so far avoided.

She had a painful cut on her thumb.

At last you hear a car coming and you get ready to "wave your thumb" at the driver.

"Dad was hanging a picture onto the wall, and just hit his thumb with a hammer, " said John through his tears.

A good rule of thumb is to multitask what you want to execute, rather than absorb, and choose jobs where mistakes won't matter.

the kind - hearted field mouse found her and took her in . the thumb girl spent the endless winter in the cave.