ticking off

A manager of a shop was ticking off one of his staffs . "l saw you were arguing with a customer . "

But once I'd composed myself I flirted with him a bit and got away with a ticking-off.

A manager of a shop was ticking off one of his staffs .

The manager of a shop was ticking off one of his staff.

Are you always trying to Get Lots of Things Done, ticking off tasks from your list like a machine, rushing through your schedule?

I could go on and on, ticking off the things that Microsoft needs to fix.

He started by ticking off a long list of "irritants, " ending with the ramming of a Russian submarine by a U. S. sub.

After the prime minister's ticking-off, the central bank tightened banks' reserve requirements, to rein in their lending.

Seven more days, he thought, lightly ticking off the second square, which was filled with notes on his work for the day.

There would be many, Cui told me, ticking off trade, energy, environment, and people-to-people exchanges, among others.

Students write the words then listen to the song, ticking off the words as they hear them.

"She's pretty, she's nice, she's intuitive, " Robin said, casually ticking off the qualities.

Mr. Lee gave his son a good ticking-off because he had been staying out too late at night.

Ticking off programs and statistics, he seemed supremely confident.

I ran through his favorite foods in my head, mentally ticking off those that were suddenly forbidden. Milk?

There is also a sense of achievement that comes with ticking off each task.

There are no prizes for ticking off every item on your to do list everyday.

He should have given me a ticking-off.

We began making adjustments and soon were ticking off weeks.

A woman will say, "Thanks A Lot" when she is really ticking off at you.

"There are taboos, " she says, ticking off a list of no-go areas such as Chinese leadership politics.

but my hand is indeed emptier little by little. Ticking off in silence, over eight thousand days have already slipped from my hands;