I'll have coffee ready in two shakes of a cow's tail.

a running nose

[…] such as a bioceanic corridor offered the prospect of better prices for Brazil's inland producers and an increase in international trade generated by the central-western and northern areas of the country, these observations were[…]

When Mr. Dole had been asked at the Republican convention about the same immigration amendment—one of the more conservative and sensitive planks—he did not oppose it, but said he would have to think long and hard before supporting it.