Luke Bryan

My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.

American Musician

Sally Field

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

American Actress

Olly Murs

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

English Musician

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

American Writer

Tony Cardenas

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

American Politician

Salman Khurshid

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Indian Politician

Anne McClain

In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.

American Astronaut

Amy Smart

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

Nigel Pearson

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

English Coach

Gabby Douglas

American Athlete

It's an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm, not a deliberate action.

Physical Reaction

Usually occurs multiple times, not just once.

Often Repeated

Common and not indicative of a health issue; often humorous in social situations.

Not Serious

Refers to a minor issue, not to be confused with a major failure or disaster.

Metaphorical Usage

Indicates a problem that is expected to be resolved quickly, not permanent.

Temporary Problem

Sometimes a hiccup leads to a beneficial reassessment or improvement.

Not Always Negative

As a verb, it means to experience the reflex, not an action done by choice.

Involuntary Action

Constant hiccupping can be irritating for the person experiencing it.

Can Be Annoying

Describes a minor and temporary interruption in a plan or activity.

Plan Disruption

Being able to adjust to hiccups shows ability to deal with unforeseen issues.

Flexible Reaction

 It has a little cough and a hiccup, and out comes sprays of little frogs. Now, when biologists saw this, they were agog. They thought, this is incredible. No animal, let alone a frog, has been known to do this, to change one organ in the body into another. And you can imagine the medical world went nuts over this as well.

Michael Archer: How...

 that could be a semi-permanent. So I took the trip. None of the disasters came to pass. There were some hiccups, sure. I was able to extricate myself from the business. I ended up extending that trip for a year and a half around the world, and that became the basis for my first book,

Why you should define...

 Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 a life of abundance and digital downloads is a delusion. It's not that it's not possible to feed, clothe and house us all and have us live decent lives. It certainly is. But the idea that we can gently grow there with a few minor hiccups

Paul Gilding: The Earth...

 The moment the first burns out, you light the other end of the second fuse. When it flickers and dies, you know that exactly 45 seconds have passed, and the electric fence is dead. By the time it hiccups back to life,

Can you solve the jail...

 And this was one of those cases that went on and on. He tried everything his friends suggested. Nothing seemed to help. Days went by. At a certain point, the man, still hiccupping, had sex with his wife.

Mary Roach: 10 things...

 the half-pound water hiccup as a small African bird has formed a mutual defense pact with a slightly larger animal the ferocious half-ton Nile crocodile you can imagine how the croc might protect

Monitor Lizard vs. Croc...

 I promise you we did not plant that flag there we just rolled up in real life it's kind of photogenic we'll take a picture next flag so we started our journey and we had a few hiccups kind of

Why Four Cowboys Rode...

 going oh that's hiccups let's stop it come on we don't want to lose her oh dear I can't see anything through this long grass Nima's sister begins to

Hide and Seek with the...

 mean everyone overcomes obstacles you know having one like isn't a big issue it's just a little bit of a hiccup in life that you can only come

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