Примеры gnat

• No more than an elephant can use its trunk to swat a swarm of gnats, is modern, conventional military technology capable of putting an end to low-intensity war.

• It is no use sending a swarm of gnats to swat an elephant, because it does not work.

• Having accepted the peace plan—or, so to speak, the camel—they are straining at gnats.

• So having swallowed the camel we must not strain at the gnat of the order.

• You have the camel; you ought not to strain at the gnat.

• I shall not be guilty of straining at the gnat or swallowing a camel.

• It is a steam roller, admittedly to crush a gnat, but it is a steam roller.

• We are in danger, if we accept the new clause, of creating a camel to strain at one or two gnats.

• He accepts the gnat of principle but strains at the camel of making it work.

• That would be to strain at a gnat and to swallow a camel.

• There is not a gnat's whisker between them.

• That is the modern equivalent to the mote and the beam, and the gnat and the camel.

• It would strain out gnats and not strain at a gnat.

• There are some people who can strain at a very small gnat and swallow a herd of circus elephants.

• It may be straining at a gnat, but it certainly strains my powers of understanding.