tar baby

Like trying to fight a tar baby, I thought.

"They have the intellectual capacity and responsiveness of a tar baby."

He's smart to try not to get himself stuck to this tar baby."

It's the bills at the end of the month, the Tar Baby.

The plot is a bit like the tar baby: whoever comes in contact with it gets stuck.

For example, defending against invading ants by creating a tar baby effect.

Tell us how you deserve to be punished like this, Tar Baby!

It is believed that Tar Baby has come up to the bottom to drink himself to death.

Variations on the tar baby legend are spread in folklore of more than one culture.

"It's regarded as a tar baby," said the legislator about the scandal.

The common colloquial sense today of tar baby is "a sticky problem, one better left untouched."

His pardon of Richard Nixon had turned into a political tar baby.

Match the Tar Baby, indeed, and run short of fuel or blow up!

It became to me like a tar baby."

And all the time he had been getting more entangled with John Shooter's tar baby.

Our electronic tar baby worked like an ace.

Tar babies are not the children of tar people.

They appear to be using explosives to penetrate the Tar Baby."

It was then that they realized "how thoroughly we had inadvertently grasped the tar baby of racial politics."

"It's like a tar baby: the more you touch it, the more you have to."

"It's a little like kicking a tar baby.

I've got the Tar Baby in my sights and it's swarming with bandits.

"It becomes the tar baby of bad code.

Referring to the savings and loan scandal, he said, "Nobody touched that tar baby till the day after the election in 1988."