back of a napkin造句

• Lets do a small calculation on the back of a napkin.
• The initial idea was first sketched out on the back of a napkin.
• Latford met with NASCAR officials at a " watering hole " and began diddling on the back of a napkin.
• Throckmorton urged him to preserve the site and convinced the Captain to draw a map, allegedly on the back of a napkin.
• It has been an eight-year journey for the couple since they first doodled their aquarium idea on the back of a napkin.
• The script of A & M plays looked as if it was written on the back of a napkin _ " Run, run, play-action ."
• Bob Latford, who created NASCAR's point system on the back of a napkin in a Daytona saloon years ago, has a good handle on the sport's basic appeal.
• "I think it is outrageous and frankly surreal that at the 11th hour in this debate, they are literally rewriting the Constitution on the back of a napkin, " she said.
• Don Shafer, his partner Yvonne and a few friends were discussing what they would do if they owned a radio station and wrote the ideas on the back of a napkin from the Alibi Room.
• Now Levy is on his own again with a new Atlanta-based company called eHatchery, an Internet-based incubator where entrepreneurs can literally bring in an idea scrawled on the back of a napkin.
• "( I was told ) the costings were drawn up on the back of a napkin by some senior Labor Party politician . . . and the head of the bulk ( insulation ) industry association.
• Foes of the amendment said they have enough votes to defeat any version of a ban on gay marriage . " In the 11th hour, they are crafting a constitutional amendment on the back of a napkin.
• The images are often surprisingly clunky, as if they were shorthand references to ideas, the sort of thing you might draw on the back of a napkin or jot down in the dark in the middle of the night.
• The back of a napkin isn't anything special, but as I say, I think someone has just combined the two expressions " written on the back of an envelope " and " written on a napkin ".
• "It's like breaking into Lockheed in the'80s, seeing the B2 bomber sketched on the back of a napkin and predicting it'll never fly, " said Jeff Brown, an EA spokesman.
• He said that the opposing lawyers fueled the acrimony, and that after negotiations had dragged on for more than a year _ racking up $ 100, 000 in legal fees _ he and his former wife met at a restaurant and worked out a settlement " on the back of a napkin ."
• "When you have an excellent attorney on the other side, even though they are your adversaries, they sort of weed out cases that shouldn't be there, " Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp said . " One of our greatest frustrations is defending the state against cases that are literally drawn on the back of a napkin ."
• :One meaning of the phrase is to suggest that the subject was thrown together quickly, and might not be the most accurate or detailed . " My back of the napkin calculations show that & pi; & cong; 3 . " It's derived from the experience of being somewhere and having a brilliant idea, but only having the back of a napkin ( or an envelope, or some other scrap of paper ) to write on.