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shot in the arm
Something that boosts one's spirits: “After my recent financial troubles, that raise was a real shot in the arm.”
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After the increasingly disastrous three “Jurassic World” movies, which were vacuums of appeal as their star Chris Pratt plodded about bemoaning his precious housebroken velociraptors, the “Jurassic” series desperately needed a shot in the arm.
“It’s a big shot in the arm,” manager Dave Roberts said.
“It’s a big shot in the arm,” Roberts said of Kershaw pregame, before Sasaki went on the injured list.
But Clooney is duly nominated for bringing Murrow’s sterling moral example to life at a time when the country badly needs a shot in the arm of courage.
It was a real shot in the arm and that week went by really fast, and I went back through Leeds and I finished off my boxing movie, and then went into “The Thursday Murder Club.”
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