Local governments generally sign contracts for gritting-salt supplies in the summer but heavy snowfall, such as Britain is experiencing at the moment, can exhaust stockpiles rapidly.
When you are patient, it doesn't mean that you endure the situation, just gritting your teeth and waiting for it to be over.
YOU can almost hear the gritting of those perfect teeth.
His mind made up, he embarked upon the course he had mapped out; and if he made no headway, he would lapse into silence for a couple of days, gritting his teeth as if gnawing at his own heart.
By the time Hu arrives to check on him, the injured pupil has resumed practice, gritting his teeth as he kicks a heavy bag.
His Israeli opponents on the left are gritting their teeth.
Then you caught sight of an old man sitting in a grass hut selling watermelons, and gritting your teeth you pulled out fifty fen to buy one.
