poor-mouth

Now, aside from the extreme, poor-mouth exaggeration and favor-currying spin of her “People have been trying to push me out of this since Iowa” schtick, there is the truly disturbing self-aggrandizement that's got tongues a 'wagging — namely her invocation of the tragic and abrupt ending of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 primary run late in the campaign season as a reasoning for the dogged continuance of her own campaign here some forty years later.

Palpitations...And No Pride To Speak Of. 2008

Now, aside from the extreme, poor-mouth exaggeration and favor-currying spin of her “People have been trying to push me out of this since Iowa” schtick, there is the truly disturbing self-aggrandizement that's got tongues a 'wagging — namely her invocation of the tragic and abrupt ending of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 primary run late in the campaign season as a reasoning for the dogged continuance of her own campaign here some forty years later.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Meanwhile both sides are already playing the expectations game -- as two talented debaters poor-mouth their own skills while making the other out to be a latter-day Cicero.

KERRY'S NEW CALL TO ARMS 2008

Who thought it would be a good idea for the wife of the former chairman of Enron to poor-mouth before a national TV audience that probably included hundreds who had lost their savings in the company's spectacular crash-and-burn bankruptcy?

A Conspiracy Of Notebooks 2007

This is a goldmine is useful information, including a clear indication that those who seek to poor-mouth the provincial government's revenues are dead wrong.

Equalization options, by the numbers Ed Hollett 2007

A really prescient commenter to this post yesterday predicted the following; Wanna bet the NY Times and/or our local pro-socialist rag [which that is I'm not sure ...] will poor-mouth [the] good news [about the USA's strong economic numbers]?

From On High 2007

Flaherty knows full-well the fiscal reality of the various provinces as opposed to the poor-mouth they like to put on for the cameras.

Flaherty coy on federal hand-outs Ed Hollett 2007

Like why the Premier would poor-mouth Hibernia royalties when he knows the project will move to a high royalty regime within the next five years or so, thereby pouring billions into provincial coffers over a longer period of time than previous expected?

Archive 2006-07-01 Ed Hollett 2006

In every issue there is an enormous selection of "special new" stamp designs, elaborate cover, some with cut-out art (which isn't cheap to produce) and, now, the Postal Service is crying poor-mouth.

tcpalm.com Stories 2010

Loot our SSI, cry poor-mouth, bury us in a deficit, threaten to CUT SSI for people who paid into it their whole lives, but lend trillions at zero interest to the rich, not to mention foreign markets.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010