"But you must stop it," said his wife, getting so cross that Flutethroat was obliged to say "Very well," and go slowly towards the fir-tree, where the tiny birds were sitting in a row, and when he got up to them there they were tired out and fast asleep; the last one awake having dropped off just as he was half through saying "weedle," and as he was going to hop over his neighbours 'backs to get in the middle. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
I actually have a whole load of questions I'd love to ask Clint, so even if he doesn't come back I think I might try and weedle an email address for him from someone and try and get to the bottom of some stuff. ❋ Ben Abraham (2008)
Needless to say, most of the weedle out of it, claiming that an urgent job has come in that takes precedence. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)
New York has become a city where bargain shopping buzzards are pointing their beaks at retail carcasses and by that I mean you can actually try to weedle prices down. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When those limiting beliefs get in the way, it's a very good idea to weedle them out and turn them around. ❋ Ms Robinson (2008)
See the plan was to weedle down the number so they could go to their fetid districts and say they were working hard to “bring our boys home”. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Why go to the trouble to weedle and connive and steal and poison the well when all you have to do is point and open your wallet, just like you would at home? ❋ Unknown (2006)
There will always be wingnuts with an agenda that requires them to lie and weedle their way into power. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Then the next two did the same, and the next, and the next, until they all had done the same thing, when they began again; and all the while that wretched, querulous piping "peedle-weedle-wee" kept on, till Mrs Flutethroat grew so angry, and annoyed and irritable, that she felt as though she could have thrown one of her eggs at the tiresome little intruders on the peace of the garden. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Peedle-weedle-wee, peedle-weedle-wee," cried a row of little long-tailed birds, so small that they looked like little balls of feathers, with tiny black eyes and a black beak -- so small that it was hardly worth calling a beak at all -- stuck at one point, and a thin tail at the other extreme. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Peedle-weedle-wee, peedle-weedle-wee," said the bottle-tits as busy as ever, trying to get the warmest spot. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The noise that Mrs Flutethroat complained of proceeded from the low branches of a large fir-tree; and as the good dame listened the sounds came again louder than ever, "Peedle-weedle-wee, peedle-weedle-wee," in ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Peedle-weedle-wee, peedle-weedle-wee," they kept crying, which meant, -- "Let me come inside where it's warm;" and as they kept on whining the same cry, the outside birds kept flitting over the backs of those next to them, and trying to get a middle place. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
We watch these criminals weedle out of every crime, every time. ❋ Karoli (2011)
Of course I don't yhink you will do that at the very least you will try to weedle out by saying you are for their pensions but that they should be cut which is the perspicacious camp. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mandelson, one of the most corrupt men to weedle his way into public office wants another Lord investigated for dodgey doings ..... ❋ Unknown (2010)
