So his speech marking 12 months since the transport white paper is unlikely to impress - unless, of course, he has managed to squeeze some new concessions out of the prime minister and can whip the long-awaited rabbit out of his hat.
You can tell a guy has raced before when you see him whip out a tube of super glue to stick a flap of skin back onto his foot.
As investors hold back and wait for a solid indication that the market will move one way or the other, they often whip-saw themselves out of profit.
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The whips point out that the lack of any immediate decision to withdraw the whip permanently should not be seen as getting Ms Dorries out of her predicament.
Once, during a tour of a food market in Australia, the burly but politically nimble city father was rash enough to whip out a notebook and record some of the prices until tradesmen started waving their fists at his gleaming bald pate.
Any self-respecting bank bull likes to whip out a chart comparing the ratio of bank loans with GDP in poor and rich countries.
They are so gifted they could take a year off, fall out of bed and whip off 50 miles at a pace that would leave most club riders gasping.
If the GOP suffers another electoral rout in the House, one would assume that Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Roy Blunt would be pushed out of their posts.
Thanks to pop culture and congressional figures, it has become increasingly more common to wear your heart on your sleeve and whip out a hanky at the drop of a hat even in the workplace.
His fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on.
"When people are stuck on a delayed train, they have time and can whip out their phone to take photos and video of any overcrowded services they're on and complain publicly, " he said.
Mr Mitchell's fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on, following a stormy prime minister's question time.
Still, Mr. Newnam says he prefers talk of TV minutiae to that of viral videos, which often cause guests to whip out phones and laptops so they can compare YouTube clips.
The high drama of the result, and the reported finger-jabbing row between rebel star Jesse Norman and the prime minister was followed by low farce as a government whip, I'm told, dashed through the corridors like something out of the end credits of the Benny Hill show.
Just carelessly whip it around your neck a couple of times, and you're out the door.
The picture never tries to whip us into a frenzy of indignation, but its restrained, lawyerly laying out of a pattern of injustice is devastatingly effective.
At the moment he doesn't rule out forming an alliance with another party but points out that UKIP doesn't operate a whip system, so if some of his members don't support a policy they will be allowed to vote against it.
Exasperated, he starts hitting out again, wielding his many-thonged whip in an effort to part the flood of humanity, futilely harrying a group of old men as insensible to his blows as they are to the sobs of a little girl lost in the crowd.
Last week Derek Conway had the Tory whip withdrawn and was suspended from the Commons for 10 days over payments to his son Freddie out of his MP's allowance.
In 1988, he won substantial damages from The News of the World after it accused him of being out drinking when he was actually at an NHS debate as a Whip and teller.
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That's why the Conservative MP for Lichfield and former government whip Michael Fabricant is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP with the promise of an 'in-out' EU referendum.
While it is not particularly surprising that partisan pundits, such as Mike Huckabee, would whip up the conservative base with suggestions that the President will not finish out his term as a result of being undone by Benghazi, when high-ranking elected officials like Senators James Inhofe (R-Okla.) make such suggestions, there is real reason for concern.
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Hearts were stuggling to create chances, but a free-kick allowed Danny Grainger the opportunity to whip the ball into the box that just evaded the diving Marius Zaliukas 10 yards out after the Lithuanian defender broke clear of his marker.
Those new songs include the comic "Weed Instead of Roses, " in which the narrator not only suggests to a longtime mate that the former would be the better choice of gift, but that he help her "put up the teddy bears and pull out the whip and chains" surely a country first.
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