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kick the can

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  1. kick the cannoun

    A game played by children, similar to tag.

Wikipedia

  1. Kick the Can

    "Kick the Can" is episode 86 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on February 9, 1962 on CBS.

Wikidata

  1. Kick the can

    Kick the can is a children's game related to tag, hide and seek, and capture the flag which can be played outdoors, with as many as three to a few dozen players. The game is one of skill, strategy, and stealth as well as fitness.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick the can in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick the can in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of kick the can in a Sentence

  1. Boris Johnson:

    If we fail again, if we kick the can down the road on 31st October, if we continue to delay, if we treat this as a fake deadline, just yet another rigmarole, then I think the voters will be very frustrated indeed, and I think that our party, the Conservative Party, which I fought for a very long time across this country, I think that we will not easily recover.

  2. Inger Andersen:

    Countries have stretched, but they've not stretched enough, many of them sort of kick the can down the road, and we need to see not pledges anymore we actually need to see real action.

  3. Deutsche Bank chief executive:

    We could kick the can down the road but won't do it.

  4. Scott Minerd:

    The only hope Europe has in the near term is to kick the can down the road and try to keep the experiment going.

  5. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

    We've raised some significant concerns about the frequency with which Congress chooses to just kick the can down the road when it comes to funding our infrastructure, to fund these efforts at a month, or two, or three at a time is really inefficient.


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