Petraeus later admitted that he had underestimated the depth of antiwar feeling in the United States, calling it “industrial-strength.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Employing industrial-strength schmoozing and flattery, he was not about to let my abject humiliation prevent him, high on magical 12-step thinking, from succeeding. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)
No, my bride, the mother of my first baby, needed the industrial-strength model, which she was told by her lactation consultant, wouldn't break down. ❋ Len Filppu (2011)
My husband, for his part, did the sleep lady shuffle while wearing industrial-strength ear protection, the kind you see men wearing on construction sites. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cloud technologies e.g., Map Reduce, Hadoop are currently used to create industrial-strength analytics that automate some of the associative indexing that required manual interaction in "memex." ❋ Steve Hamby (2011)
In the center of the room stood several industrial-strength paper shredders and a couple of power drills with large bits capable of penetrating metal. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
Any releases with such amazing features should be industrial-strength, not proof-of-concept. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He also gave me prescriptions for industrial-strength naproxen, indomethacin, and another muscle relaxant, tizanidine, to try as new rescue meds. ❋ Jennette Fulda (2011)
Two days after he arrived, I was again driving around, this time through strange neighborhoods, in a rush and near panic trying to find the home of a woman who rented industrial-strength breast pumps. ❋ Len Filppu (2011)
If you know what New York's been going through these past few months, you understand we needed that industrial-strength cooling. ❋ Dan Persons (2010)
I am thinking of the cheerleaders for cannabis who think that a past of wafting through college grounds, smoking a few fragrant leaves, gives them a unique insight into the industrial-strength skunk that's now the norm. ❋ Unknown (2012)
This explains why the companies that once dominated industrial-strength computing—the IBMs, the Oracles, the H-Ps—now nervously tug their forelocks around Apple and Google. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)
Yes, that's right, industrial-strength breast pumps. ❋ Len Filppu (2011)
An ear-splintering screech, then an industrial-strength grinding noise that I realized, when I saw the cake with the giant sparkler stuck in it, was a scratchy old cassette recording of “Happy Birthday” in Arabic. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)
Maybe, because she was the industrial-strength breast pump lady, she spent her days pumping prodigious amounts of breast milk and serving it to all the kids in the neighborhood. ❋ Len Filppu (2011)
The industrial-strength breast pump lady operated out of her home, and I soon found myself sitting on a wet, sticky couch in her living room that had been completely overtaken by five or six screaming toddlers who jumped all over the furniture and flailed about like excited monkeys in a sinking banana barge. ❋ Len Filppu (2011)
As we entered I was overwhelmed by the smell, which reminded me of nothing so much as the parochial school boys' room of my youth; that hyper-sanitary odor of industrial-strength disinfectant, a comforting assurance that the owners had spared no expense to insure that patrons had a fun, parasite-free experience. ❋ Con Chapman (2012)
He [cut] an industrial strength [fart]. ❋ Light Joker (2006)
Don't [make me] [open up a can] of industrial strength [whoopass]! ❋ Fizzle (2004)
[That woman] is hardcore industrial strength. Wearing [flannel] and [pumping iron] are her specialties. ❋ SCA (2007)
Example 1
Guy 1: Last night a fly landed on my brothers crotch. He took the hardest swipe he could at it and totally nutted himself.
Guy 2: Unbelievable. Your brother [iis] [industrial strength stupid].
Example 2:
Guy 1: My showoff neighbour changed the oil in his driveway on the weekend. He forgot to put the [drain plug] back in. He poured 5 quarts of oil, straight through his engine block all over his concrete. Then he hops in it, drives away and makes it to the end of the street before his engine seized.
Guy 2: Wow. That was a really industrial strength stupid thing to do. But since he's a douche, it's kind of funny. ❋ Mad Hammer (2009)
