Red Adair

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

American Celebrity

Elif Batuman

When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

American Author

Andre Drummond

Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I'd tense up and I'd miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.

American Athlete

Siobhan Davies

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

English Dancer

John Lennon

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

English Musician

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

English Poet

Liev Schreiber

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.

American Actor

Lisa Marie Presley

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

American Musician

Charlie Haden

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Viv Albertine

British Musician

Use 'rattle' to describe objects in motion making noise due to impact or shaking.

Physical Events

'Rattle' often suggests something is loose or not secure, like old or broken objects.

Indicating Disrepair

Writers use 'rattle' to create a vivid auditory setting in stories or descriptions.

Ambient SFX

The noun form often implies a series of sounds is intense or cannot be ignored.

Implying Intensity

'Rattle of gunfire' can suggest a tense or dangerous situation, often used in news.

Sense of Urgency

To 'rattle' someone can mean to affect them deeply, emotionally or mentally.

Emotional Impact

Speakers use 'rattle' to describe throwing off someone's usual composure or focus.

Upsetting Balance

'Rattling someone's cage' suggests deliberately provoking or challenging them.

Power Dynamics

A 'rattle' as an object is typically a baby's toy that makes noise when shaken.

Childhood Object

In medical terms, a 'rattle' in the chest suggests serious respiratory issues.

Medical Significance

A 'death rattle' indicates a person is near end of life, a sobering and serious sign.

End-of-Life Indicator

 And it's not because they need a therapist, though that does sometimes happen, it's really because anger is universal. It's something we all feel and it's something they can relate to. We've been feeling it since the first few months of life, when we didn't get what we wanted in our cries of protests, things like, "What do you mean you won't pick up the rattle, Dad,

Why we get mad -- and...

 And, you know, when we pulled up to a stoplight the people in the adjacent cars kind of gave us respectful nods. And it was really amazing. It was such a smooth ride. Most of the cars that I drive, if I get up to 80 they start to rattle. I switched lanes on the highway and the driver, this chaperone, said,

Benjamin Wallace: The...

 extraordinary it's such a long rattle and particularly rough scales and this is this because it's a very arid environment yeah they're called keeled scales so just helps them move through so dusty sandy nice it's pretty - I've just showed him some of the heat from my hand so he's picked those up with his

Rattlesnake Tail in Slow...

 "Oh, dear. That's cracked. Let's repair it. Let's take it out and throw it away so nobody can use it and put a new one in." Because that's what you do with a cracked pane. Never mind that it doesn't affect our lives at all. It only rattles that expected pattern and unity of structural features.

Dan Phillips: Creative...

 rattle and really deliberately try to summon sharks and engage in combat with them in order to bring them back for important occasions they see sharks is very powerful and as entities that can exercise their power both for good and for L and I think that in many ways

Juliet Eilperin: Demon...

 And you know, I can rattle off all that is, what a job that is, and so on. And so, when you have congresses and presidents and they start to say, who will we help, and how will that be, and what will that mean, it gets down to real practical questions.

What coronavirus means...

 out and I can see his face in terror looking at me saying help me dad I got him the wave break Oh broke over us we got back on shore he was fine we were a little bit rattled but this flashbulb memory as it's called is when all the

How photography connects...

 to my hair everything changed overnight my worldview my aesthetics my desire to rattle the status quo that I'd already felt outside of as a child my art became more provocative and a teacher tore down my

The role of disruption...

 a year and then fall over dead like this poor fella this shrew is no more it rests in peace or does it is this a death rattle or is the shrew actually you know coming back

Burying Beetles PIPE...

 or does it is this a death rattle or is the shrew actually you know coming back to life nope this is still an ex shrew the burying beetles have come they