snot-nosed

And Tom Cruise, now 51, will no longer be playing a snot-nosed jockey with a need for speed on the highway to the danger zone.

The catchy song sees Mary's protective mantle as covering "the whole wide world," and so I also ask her to protect the snot-nosed toddler who flashes a big smile at me as he crosses the street with his mom, the grade-schoolers on their way to school, the homeless who hang out by the shelter I pass, the fellow cyclists heading into the city, and even the impatient driver who nearly grazes me as he speeds by with barely an inch to spare.

Instead of water, cattails, and smartweed, he saw pavement, mini vans and dumpy housewives dragging their whiny, snot-nosed kids.

I have yet to see a skinny snot-nosed kid with hand-me-down jumpers with holes in the elbows, and their backside hanging out of their trousers.

You see resume jargon in two places: on the resumes of snot-nosed kids who think it makes them sound important, and in the emails and memos of red-nosed middle managers who think it makes them sound important.

RYAN ADAMS Heartbreaker JUST one syllable short of sharing a name with the lumberjack-shirted Canadian satan of stadium rock, this North Carolinian was merely a snot-nosed twenty-something when he recorded this now seminal acoustic meander into utter misery.

It's been 19 years since Green Day first came to Scotland and in that time they've gone from snot-nosed young punks to stadium-filling rock-opera writers.

Yep, now there's rules, there's paperwork, there's commissions you can't give a proper whitewash to, and everywhere you go there's some snot-nosed little whelp with a camera just waiting for you to so much as take a crap in the wrong place.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Sandler movie without a little crude humor, so watch for a booger monster, a bee-stung tongue and a snot-nosed dog.

Shabby, none too clean and full to the brim with snot-nosed, scabby-kneed and bare-bottomed kids, it held a fascination for me.

I gaze down at my feet, then up at the snot-nosed child who considers me over his mother's shoulder.

But odds are snot-nosed, underachieving Jason Donovan will nick it.

Every fam needs an official archivist and a great way to avoid Aunt Selma's annoying questions or cousin Jamal's snot-nosed baby is to be the official photographer.

But the star of Aardman's darker side is Angry Kid, (pictured) a snot-nosed reprobate with a serious attitude problem.