jackstraws
Britishnoun
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“The Colony Fire specifically is burning in a really bad spot … where these trees are like jackstraws and it’s difficult to put fire personnel into some of these areas because of that,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
He took on Soviet cinema’s senior figure Sergei Eisenstein, likening Eisenstein’s 1925 film “Strike” to “theater for fools”; Eisenstein in turn dismissed Vertov’s “formalist jackstraws and unmotivated camera mischief.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2011
Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile of rubble and jackstraws.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws," writes Author Tuchman; "one could not be pulled out without moving the others."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a little bit like playing jackstraws, where you toss all the straws down in a pile and then try to take one away without disturbing the others.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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