They looked as sheepish as the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
When you get home, your self-control is so exhausted that you kick the cat or reach for the cookie jar.
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Fannie Mae lied about its finances and policies and paid politicians who supported the GSEs and raided the cookie jar for itself.
They raided the cookie jar on an industrial scale, till they were morbidly obese, but their parents - the regulators - saw them as the picture of health.
From that point on, advantaged 21 players found better and better methods of working the casinos in ways only dreamed of when Dr. Thorp first cracked open the cookie jar.
Instead, we have the stupid industry, sitting there on the stool with its hand in the cookie jar, fistful of cookies unable to pass the rim, red-faced, crying, and looking like a fool.
Now, when I was a kid and I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I sort of turned red, shrugged my shoulders and take my hand out of the cookie jar.
Now, you know, when I was a kid, and I got my hand caught in the cookie jar -- (laughter) -- well, my face sort of turned red and I took my hand out of the cookie jar. (Laughter.) Not Governor Romney.
Grab an unlimited amount of cookies from the complimentary cookie jar and go for a stroll, surveying the inn's 200 bucolic acres.
Michael Krensavage, a drug industry analyst at Raymond James, doesn't like the massive cookie-jar reserves Teva is booking-a prop that will become more apparent if sales slow.
Instead, "flour was all over the box, " and just one jar of cookie mix was intact, says the 47-year-old public relations director for a bed and mattress company from Highland, Md.
Each nym has what the company calls a "cookie jar, " with its own cookies.
When Berkowitz accused Skilling of using Enron's reserve accounts as a financial cookie jar to fabricate the company's earnings, Skilling told the prosecutor that he didn't understand the financial documents he was trying to characterize.
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