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Referring to a cylindrical or elongated structure with a central constriction likened, sometimes in only a very general sense, to an hourglass
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Adelaide clinic Repromed pioneered the Egg Timer Test, which costs about 70 dollars, to measure the number of eggs a woman has and predict how many child-bearing years she still has.
Calling hirself "an egg timer in a forest of hour-glasses" just about sums up Bergman's alienated experience: As a butch, Bergman says, ze was too girly, without interest in stereotypically butch lesbian pastimes, and in "trying to figure out which gender really seemed like the best fit" kept coming back to what one might call hir own perceived definition of gay (or perhaps not stereotypically heterosexual) masculinity.
The foolproof egg timer, as its name suggests, will help.
There are performances in which Vonna-Michell first sets (or asks the audience to set) a time limit using an egg timer, and then breaks into a dazzlingly fast, borderline-impenetrable monologue recounting his quest, edited or expanded on the fly; these semi-improvised recitations are complemented by--and frequently take place within--changeable, sketchy installations, liable to include performer's props, video, and slide projections.
Scrambles egg, an egg timer, a giant spoon and a stand.
The bishop did, however, concede that "it's a bit weird when you see a bishop handing you an egg timer."
When a reporter was on a long-distance call, he had Rand stand nearby holding an egg timer; when two minutes were up, he cut off the interview, finished or not.
BEFORE YOU PLAY Get a timepiece, Such as a clock radio, egg timer or wristwatch.
Of course, the sight he encountered might have caught him off-guard too: a nervous guy in a tuxedo secluded in a dimly-lit holding room with a stack of pages in one hand and an egg timer in the other.
After a few purposefully missed cues and a gag with an egg timer, the hen, who turns out to be Red Riding Hood's mother, produces the story's heroine: the egg.
On the return leg of the trip, the suitcase was supposedly empty and she was not quite sure how an egg timer ended up in it.
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