to swab the deck

They simply insist that his Persian-tinged pronunciation, grammatical usages, and vocabulary were the result of a birth and education in Iranophilic Afghanistan.

The Crab-Eating Wolf, Canis cancrivorus, or Maikong, is a slender, long-legged, jackal-like animal, with a short, broad, blunt-nosed head, rounded ears of moderate size, placed wide apart, oblique eyes with oblong pupils, and a tail nearly touching the ground.

repeated stallings of the car engine