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His men would be cut down like weeds before they could fire a shot.
He said that some people are like weeds in the garden.
"Some people think these organisms are like weeds," he said in a recent interview.
The trees grow like weeds, about 25 feet in three years and they are never from an old growth forest.
Grievances are like weeds: if you water them, they will grow.
And she tells me that my brother's family in England is well, his two young children growing like weeds.
Like weeds, bad habits were always ready to take root the moment you turned your eyes the other way.
But both are invasive, growing like weeds, and should be avoided.
Floral prints are a natural for summer, and this year they have taken off like weeds.
From then on they're on their own - like weeds, in some cases.
Unchaperoned, and with the heat of the summer, something grew in them like weeds.
After oil was discovered in 1929, derricks spread there like weeds.
It's true that promises from politicians come at us like weeds on steroids.
But bureaucracies have a way of sprouting again, like weeds.
"But somehow or other, I've got to get a handle on all the problems my predecessor let grow like weeds."
The mechanics came uninvited around the same time, like weeds in a garden.
Thoughts for the dead would burst through the miasma like weeds.
But they sprout like weeds to the north in Nicaragua."
Your kids are growing like weeds. I can't believe how tall they are.
Uprooted them like weeds, one pointy ear at a time.
Grow like weeds, before you can stop them.
The inconspicuous little plants look a lot like weeds, and the flowers stay rolled up during the day.
"It was paralysis through analysis, and opposition groups sprung up like weeds," he said.
Life sprouting everywhere, like weeds in the cracks of a pavement.
Their children would grow up thinking that supermarket carts grew wild, like weeds.