It is that in Europe no one can afford to rush their fences or forget certain standards.

She took a deep breath and rushed her fences.

Canning was not a man to rush his fences.

He added: “We don’t want to rush our fences.

But I can see now that I rushed my fences.

It was possible, after all, that he was rushing his fences, making unreasonable demands on himself.

He had been a fool to rush his fences, and it would be a miracle if he did not come a cropper.

He said the Afghan commanders felt in control of what they were up to, not rushing their fences, but gradually accumulating competence and confidence.

The assaults also became organized, with coordinated groups rushing the fences at multiple points to overwhelm the border guards.

There is a danger here that England, eager to make up for the embarrassment against Wales, will rush their fences.

Christ, they're rushing their fences, Leamas thought; it's indecent.

Well, let's not rush our fences.

The immigrants rush the fences when the agents are scheduled to change shifts; the agents delay their shift change.

Traditionally, Broadway plays take years to find their way to the screen, and Paramount showed no particular inclination to rush "Fences" along.

Battleaxe, Battleaxe, yet - and it's Battleaxe wins for a crown; Look at him rushing the fences, he wants to bring t'other chap down.

He told arts correspondents on 6 May that while they had created an expectation of radical reform of the Arts Council, his team were not going to 'rush their fences'.

ARCHIE Kane has certainly not rushed his fences in finding a new boss for Widows' fund management arm, Martin Flanagan writes.

One analyst said: "The noises coming out of the Carlsberg camp, and to a lesser extent its consortium partner Heineken, is that they are not going to rush their fences on S&N.

While there is sense in not rushing the fences, it is surely sensible for Mr. Cameron to sketch out his vision is in speeches and interviews ahead of the renegotiations that will likely define his premiership.

He wasn't a man to rush his fences, and it wasn't until the morning of his second day there that he suggested that they might go into Shaftesbury for her mother and do some shopping, and Phyllida, called in from fetching the eggs from the hen-house at the end of the garden, readily agreed.

the 'orse is all ready - I wish you'd have rode him before; Nothing like knowing your 'orse, sir, and this chap's a terror to bore; Battleaxe always could pull, and he rushes his fences like fun -- Stands off his jump twenty feet, and then springs like a shot from a gun.