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checkeredcheckered careerA history of employment characterized by many different kinds of jobs or by many alternating periods of success and failure. I had a checkered career after high school, taking any kind of work that I could find. I don't know if I would trust your finances to him, he's had a rather checkered career from what I've heard. See also: career, checkered take the checkered flagTo finish in first place in an auto racing competition. Primarily heard in US. Neck and neck right up until the final moments of the race, photo analysis revealed that it was Steinman who took the checkered flag. See also: checkered, flag, take Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. checkered careerA background that includes many changes, especially of employment. For example, Heather's had a checkered career, hopping from one city to another and one job to another . This expression, first recorded in 1881, uses checkered in the sense of "constantly alternating," much like the squares on a checkerboard. See also: career, checkered The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also:- career
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- in and out
- back and forth
- Truth, Justice, and the American Way
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References in periodicals archive In fact, I'd say the mild checkering was the perfect complement to the Novak gun's front- and backstraps, which are checkered at a crisp 25 lpi. Hogue offers smooth, checkered, and finger-groove grips, and I've owned examples of each over the years, but in addition to the test grips I also ordered a strikingly beautiful set of rosewood grips for my Jim Garthwaite custom Commander. Extreme grips: Hogue's new extreme series will spiff up your favorite 1911 While many of the guns I've owned over the years had stocks that weren't checkered, I've come to appreciate the benefits, both esthetically and physically, of checkering. Winchester Model 12 restoring a classic--part 3: in part 2 (2/10 issue), Coffield installed a recoil pad and laid out the checkering. This time, he checkers the stock and polishes the metal With " Checkered Flag Cooking: An Insider's Guide To Tailgating At The Races", Kent Whitaker has combined his passion for great cooking with his passion for race car events to produce an impressive collection of recipes ideal for tailgate dining, grilling, and race-day cookouts. Checkered Flag Cooking I lay the blade in the checkered line and rock it forward to the end of the pattern in front of the grip following that cut with the single-line cutter. Checkering a gunstock is easy: not quite as difficult as sometimes imagined, with a proper process good checkering can be done by anybody His grips start at $36 and go up to $86 for checkered double-diamond "Connoisseur Grade" eye-poppers. Ahrends 1911 Grips |