Hunker Down

The entire country, it seems, is in hunker-down mode. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time. ❋ Ian Fletcher (2011)

Mr. Ludwick, a fee-only financial adviser based in Washington, D.C., recommends that Mr. Magarik boost his cash savings to cover at least four months of "hunker-down expenses," which would exclude his high-end gym and eating out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But companies like Terex Corp., a maker of heavy equipment in Westport, Conn., were in hunker-down mode long before the markets started gyrating. ❋ Ben Casselman (2011)

"The first step is to go into hunker-down mode and not make snap decisions," he says. ❋ Ben Levisohn (2011)

Journal Community "This is being driven by the app etite to find more oil, comfort that today's oil prices will be sustained and companies getting out of a hunker-down, recession mode," said James West , an energy analyst with Barclays, who co-authored the survey, which has been produced every year since 1982. ❋ Russell Gold (2010)

His career trajectory is indicative of the tremendous potential synergies that could emerge from funding innovation; a "resetting" in one area could facilitate the opportunity to "hunker-down" in another, opening new possibilities in existing institutions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are happy where they are and more likely to hunker-down in tough times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A lot of factors contribute to this prodigious hunker-down: the aforementioned tires ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Most firms are taking kind of a hunker-down, let's-wait-and-see attitude," says Mr. Jones, who adds that economic pressures aren't hitting all firms equally. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's just that we don't have as many troops and seem to be more in hunker-down mode. ❋ Rogers (2007)

Steve Bates, proprietor of The Yellow Doggerel Democrat, is in full hunker-down mode in Houston waiting for Rita. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Over three-thousand American lives have been lost so far, in Iraq alone, yet, Bush is still poised to commit even more soldiers to hunker-down in the Iraqi sand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What's stunning is the Bush regime's arrogant plans and preparations to hunker-down and dig in instead of packing up to leave. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And I have to say I am -- I'm the great granddaughter of the anthropologist Robert Park and -- who was a big proponent of this sort of hunker-down method. ❋ Unknown (2000)

That is, to me, the Salinas government and the man who was there before him started a move away from their antiAmerican, single-party, hunker-down, isolate from the world, operate in ways that we don't consider acceptable system, to one that's more pro-American, more open and more democratic. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

During [Hurricane Ike], i got so smashed playing [Hunker Down] that I missed [the storm]! ❋ Kixette (2011)

Another [hurricane's] coming toward [Florida], so [it's time] for us to hunker down. ❋ KRHimself (2004)

I got [turn off] the TV and hunker down and [get this] [homework] done. ❋ Peter (2003)

Wow, Mary really did [hunker down] on those [jacuzzi] [jets]! ❋ Waterpoop (2019)

"We're going to have to hunker down and fight the evil-doers" - George [H.W]. Bush "Everyone is hunkered down and not a single person is around to speak with us" - CNN in a remote field at [4am] during hurricane [Wilma] ❋ Itisme (2005)

Hey, I got some [Pabst] y'all, if ya [wanna play] some [hunker down]! ❋ S33s (2009)

After finishing that last [40] I decided to hunker down and [finish] [that paper] I had due. ❋ Frizzy (2003)

[look at that] [cheap fuck] hunkering down ❋ Easton11 (2008)

Seeing [that there] was no bathroom for [miles], Bill had to hunker down [in the woods]. ❋ Krammy (2005)