To call a paperhanger in, and so he made some paste. From Wordnik.com. [When Father Papered the Parlour] Reference
I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger, and you've got miles to cover. From Wordnik.com. [Standoff]
Her father, Samuel Lerner, was a painter and paperhanger, and so was mine. From Wordnik.com. [Ideas of Class] Reference
Rogers then changed his profession from mob enforcer to paperhanger and housepainter. From Wordnik.com. [Left to Die] Reference
So as far as this one-armed paperhanger is concerned -- no blog, no grand strategist. From Wordnik.com. [Obama goes offshore] Reference
I told him that she was getting what she paid for, that I never claimed to be a paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
President Grushavoy had been as busy as a one-armed, one-legged paperhanger for three years. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
"We are a people," he had told - Mf, "who have mor in our noses than this paperhanger 19% in his behind.". From Wordnik.com. [Briar Rose]
The journey that had begun in a room over the shop of a paperhanger in Newark had ended in an extraordinary marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
Can't Post | Private Reply if you lose an arm and you are a paperhanger, don't you deserve more than your medical bills?. From Wordnik.com. [People who shouldn't drive. Any real answer?] Reference
Restraint is what the rest of the world showed when they dismissed a crazy Austrian paperhanger and his nutty book, “Mein Kampf.”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Williams Confronts Kristol: ‘You Just Want War, War, War, And You Want Us In More War’] Reference
Since you cite Hitler, among others, I'd like to point out that many people in the U.S. and Britain ridiculed him as a 'paperhanger.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: "The Brink of Madness"] Reference
If his subordinates each ask him one or two things a week, he must be as busy as the proverbial one-armed paperhanger in a windstorm. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Ha!] Reference
They've made him into a quadriplegic paperhanger; he's given skates to climb a mountain and lead combat boots to run the 100-yard dash. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
He cited Pacelli's dismay that a U.S. bishop once had derided Hitler of being a "bad paperhanger" because of its diplomatic implications. From Wordnik.com. [Insights into Vatican's diplomacy before World War II emerge from archives] Reference
Preposterous as in ‘ I remember the time that I had my Tank’s turret aimed right at the the old paperhanger himself, but Hitler slipped on a banana peel and I missed. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Sins: Freakin’ Hitler – The Bleat.] Reference
I'm sure he commiserated with the proverbial one-armed paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [springfieldnewssun.com - News] Reference
The cousins came last week, and we were as busy as a one-armed paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
To leave it for the painter and paperhanger to settle would be a fatal error. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
So as far as this one-armed paperhanger is concerned - no blog, no grand strategist. From Wordnik.com. [Outside The Beltway | OTB] Reference
On inquiring at Number 13 we found that the house belonged to a respectable paperhanger, named. From Wordnik.com. [A Study in Scarlet] Reference
Thus, when the local paperhanger was called to the colours his wife repapered the author's country cottage. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916] Reference
He was beautifully curved and his black preacher uniform looked as if it had been put on him by a paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [At Good Old Siwash] Reference
As soon as the puppies were bestowed on the porch, in the sunshine, for their morning nap, he telephoned to the local paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Blue Begins] Reference
I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
I built an addition to my dwelling; and when it was completed I employed a paperhanger from London named Taylor, to beautify the old rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
"By the way, Dimple, I forgot to tell you that possibly the paperhanger might be here; he was to come one day this week to paper the upper hall.". From Wordnik.com. [A Sweet Little Maid] Reference
He is invariably a gentleman by daylight, breakfasting in a dress suit, and posing as a paperhanger, while after dark he plies his nefarious occupation of burglary. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
Work found for bricklayer, carpenter, painter and paperhanger. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919] Reference
“I’ve been busier than a one-armed paperhanger” = figure of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Bob Marshall to join Hendrick Motorsports?] Reference
"I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares. From Wordnik.com. [Banzai! by Parabellum] Reference
“You a paperhanger?” he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
He then found work as a painter and paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [Tillie Olsen.] Reference
Didn't I send a paperhanger to you with patterns?. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
"Like a one-armed paperhanger. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
‘Like a one-armed paperhanger.’”. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
I'm an electrician, a plumber, a painter, a paperhanger, ceramic tile. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Roy Lee and Mary Ruth Auton, February 28, 1980. Interview H-0108. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
SCHUTTE, FRED H, furniture, upholsterer and paperhanger, Front, bet Dock and Orange. From Wordnik.com. [Haddock's Wilmington, N.C., Directory, and General Advertiser, Containing a General and Business Directory of the City, Historical Sketch, State, County, City Government, &c., &c.:] Reference
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