31 Metaphors for partner

The partner who owns fifty-one per cent. of the stock in any business is the boss, even if the other is allowed to call himself president.

My junior partner may be the eyes and legs of the firm and I may be some other portion of its anatomy, but you are its heart and its conscience.

My partner, Sir Giles Mompesson, will be here anon, and will requite any outrage committed upon me.

And the partner, in her own phraseology, was theDevil.

At any rate he did not tell her that his only partners were two burros and a mule.

The third partner is the glands of internal secretion, which act upon the viscera both directly and indirectly through the check and drive effect upon the vegetative nerves.

Partners ("Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which is the result of the husband's earnings and the wife's savings becomes their joint property....

His partner was a woman of doubtful age, and one whose countenance rather indicated that the uncertainty was likely to continue until the record of the tomb-stone divulged the so often contested circumstance to the world.

EFFIGY.Two married partners, between or in whom conjugial love subsists, are an effigy and form of it, 65.

'Partners at cards, even if we are not to be partners for life,' Smithson had whispered, tenderly; and Lesbia's only reply had been a modest lowering of lovely eyelids, and a faint, faint blush.

In conjunction with Horace Hall, the then well known and popular partner in the bank of Signor Emanuele Fenzi (one of whose sons married an English wife, and is still my very good and forty years old friend), he obtained a new concession of the mines from the Grand Duke on very favourable terms, and by the time I made his acquaintance had become a wealthy man.

"The partners in the Freethought Publishing Company are Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, who have entered into a legal partnership for the purpose of sharing the legal responsibility of the works they publish.

Married partners, according to these conjunctions, become one man (homo) more and more.

But the moment that his arm was about her waist and they had started for the door, Violet Oliver realised that her partner was the lightest dancer in the room.

These are called births, because conjugial love perfects an angel, uniting him with his consort, in consequence whereof he becomes more and more a man (homo) for, as was said above, two married partners in heaven are not two but one angel; wherefore by conjugial unition they fill themselves with the human principle, which consists in desiring to grow wise, and in loving whatever relates to wisdom.

" The boy's partner was Victorine.

" "My partner, he poor man," was the rejoinder.

His partner was a new chambermaid, who had just come to town, and whom the head waiter introduced to the newcomer upon his arrival.

Again, in Henry's departmentfor the office was cut into two halves, with about ten clerks in each, the partners having, of course, their own private offices, from which they might dart out at any momentthere was a certain little fussy chief clerk who was obviously a person of very mysterious importance.

It should be well remembered, that, while it is not indispensable to success in the jobbing-business that each partner should be an expert in every department of the business, in buying, selling, collecting, paying, and book-keeping, it is absolutely necessary that each should be such in his own department,and that the firm, as a unit, should include a completely competent man for each and every one of these departments.

He has also an extensive cattle ranch on the Dismal river, sixty-five miles north of North Platte, his partner being Major Frank North, the old commander of the celebrated Pawnee scouts.

Beulah was a dream; the Yellow House was a dream, the dance was a dream, the partner was a dream.

Outside that, he left this much smaller capital of which, as also of her money, my partner and I are trustees.

The lady partners were not in evening dress, just blouses and skirts, and it seemed the custom for the man to pay the proprietor for each dance, take his lady through the gate, and when it was over escort her to the bar to have a drink.

Well, I expect I'm lucky because my partner's a good sort.

31 Metaphors for  partner