Jimmy Legs

Having presided over the largest expansion of government since LBJ—health care, financial reregulation, spending 24% of GDP, the surge of industrial policy—Mr. Obama's pollsters must be saying that voters have the jimmy-legs about bigger government and that he thus can't run only as a Great Society man. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Their jimmy-legs tapped as they studied the clock, while I studied the chest bending under my palms while the old woman cried help me, God, help me, and the young one hugged her purse like a doll while tick tick tick, the miraculous ticking of ticks: ❋ Sammy Perlmutter (2010)

"Sure," says the jimmy-legs, "nothing to do at all but steam slowly back --" ❋ Thorne Smith (1913)

"That's it," says the jimmy-legs, "you just sort of steam back and forth in front of it slowly." ❋ Thorne Smith (1913)

"Why, you see," continued the jimmy-legs, "it just sort of steams back and forth in front of the submarine, just steams slowly back and forth in front of the submarine until it provokes it." ❋ Thorne Smith (1913)

Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is? ❋ Unknown (2008)

To my buddies, an unscrupulous, clamorous crew of pirates, as loyal and generous a lot as ever returned a borrowed dress jumper with dirty tapes; to numerous jimmy-legs and P. O.'s whose cantankerous tempers have furnished me with much material for this book; and also to a dog, an admirable dog whom I choose to call Mr. Fogerty, with apologies to this dog if in these pages his slave has unwittingly maligned his character or in any way cast suspicion upon his moral integrity. ❋ Thorne Smith (1913)