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While singing with fire and bravado, Mr. Downie prances, staggers, goosesteps, squats and swings his arms like an ape, tries a bit of flamenco dancing and wields the mike stand like a majorette.
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As I said, I hear no goosesteps - but if you are inviting an analogy, I do see a Don Quixote tilting at windmills while ignoring a real, live ambush of bloodthirsty fanatics bearing down on him waving their scimitars.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Fascism blooming faster than crab grass on a southern front lawn right before our eyes and our leaders seem dumbstruck in their efforts to stop it in its tracks, its huge tracks, its overwhelming tracks, its big feet slamming down on us as it goosesteps over our necks with its bootheel-enforced philosophy of demand.
Old Father Time Is Hanged By His Neck The Daily Growler 2006
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The lies they tell ya are made of the same thing they sell ya the bullshit you swallow, in whose steps? in goosesteps you follow
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That our Sissy remained free on that September evening when animated cigarettes pranced in glittery goosesteps down Broad Street was owing in part to the efforts of a social worker who had been assigned to her case.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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Chances of this happening are approximately the same as a cold day in Hell, which is where Bush, Cheney, Obama, and every single member of congress who goosesteps along is heading.
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In the pause between goosesteps of the second hand
Sweetness & Light 2008
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Hey, is it just me or does that neo-Nazi assassination plotter look like maybe he goosesteps with the left jackboot as well as the right?
Badger Blog Alliance 2008
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March 18, 2010, 5: 07 pm leo marvin says: doodahman: If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and goosesteps like a duck, it’sduck.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and goosesteps like a duck, it’s duck.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010
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