160 Metaphors for business

Poor he became, and left his glorious seat, To make us humble, and to make us great; His business here was happiness to give To those whose malice could not let him live.

I'll get busy and tell him that this radio business is the biggest kind of an expert job and that you fellows are blamed doubtful about it.

"Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, Ah ain't eveh raghtly comp'ehended, but Ah've reckoned that theah wah business an' Procalmashum an' so fothe was fo' common niggehs an' fiel' han's an' sech what b'long to th' place.

All this business was a miserable quibble, a tissue of scholastic technicalities.

My business in these pages has been not prescription but diagnosis.

And, even if they can learn something of science without prejudice to their usefulness, what is the good of their attempting to instil that knowledge into boys whose real business is the acquisition of reading, writing, and arithmetic?

She colored, recollecting, no doubt that the business was still a secret.

Their business was wreckage, and they fixed a charge of powder by the tobacco shed, laid and lit a fuse, and retired discreetly into the bushes to watch their handiwork.

My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good;

Their business is not a matter of sympathy, but of intellect.

The business of every one was now the choice of a partner.

First Tariff Act, 1789.The first important business that Congress took in hand was a bill for raising revenue, and a lively debate began.

Business to me is a great mystery, into which I haven't the slightest desire to penetrate.

It is one of the main factors in the progressive embitterment of the Labour situation that whatever business is afootarbitration, conciliation, inquiryour contemporary system presents itself to Labour almost invariably in a legal guise.

The president business is a good deal like bear hunting.

As to the other antecedents, they were no concern of mine, though Mr. Bellingham seemed to think otherwise, for he resumed: "That cab business was the last straw, you know, and it finished me off, but I have been going down the hill for a long time.

It is a game, Mr. Merrick, just as business is a game, politics a game, and war a game.

How Caesar returned to Rome and celebrated his triumph and settled what business remained (chapters 14-21).

Said he'd been told that this pastor emeritus business was Latin, and it smelt of popery to him; but the Doc wouldn't stand for any foolishness.

Important business must be my excuse.

Examples: 1. "Whose business is shoeing animals.

The hounds understanding that their business was the pursuit of deer, and having hunted the island over thoroughly, came back to us, and sat quietly down upon their haunches, as much as to say there was nothing there worth looking after.

The principal business which called Mr. Bourne to the plantation, as we have already remarked, was the appraisement of an apprentice.

" "Why not a little business, Blutch, in a small town with" "There's a great future in chicken-farmin'.

The more earnestly, therefore, we contend that the business of the church is the Christianization of the social order, the more strenuously we must maintain that she is powerless to do this work except as her life is fed by faith and prayer.

160 Metaphors for  business