jump through a hoop

After jumping through a hoop or two, I ended up with a .

He says his reluctance "to automatically jump through a hoop" will be a plus in the South.

The incident, apparently witnessed by Jean, was similar to training a dog to jump through a hoop.

Why don't you learn to balance a ball on your snout, or jump through a hoop?

I trained him to jump through a hoop I made with thin branches.

I would hate to think that some children at home now are going to try and make their pet cat jump through a hoop of fire.

See a whale jump through a hoop.

At its master's command, the dog climbed a stairway, jumped through a hoop, and did other clever tricks.

In which dolphins swim in and jump through a hoop and ring a bell.

Just because Mrs. Clinton wants to see his tax returns, the congressman should jump through a hoop and do everything she demands?"

He can prance all day on his hind legs, climb ladders, walk a tightrope, jump through a hoop of fire.

It features movements as where a dog jumps through a hoop, a scene which actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines.

"Maybe I shouldn't laugh, but that crazy Howard come to the school meeting with a gang of thugs and made everyone jump through a hoop.

"If they can rig it, I can jump through a hoop at SeaWorld."

"Just look at him," Stubblefield went on, as in the distance the solitary figure jumped through a hoop and landed back on the nearly invisible wire.

A boy reaches out to the cat and it turns into the Sphinx, which turns into a lion jumping through a hoop in the circus.

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then onto a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire.

We saw the aquarium where a porpoise jumped through a hoop and got everybody wet and the botanical gardens where orchids grew like weeds.

So when Vanderbilt said he wanted Uncle Dan'l off the board last fall, your friend Elbridge jumped through a hoop."

With one jump through a hoop, the graceful dancer's simple white gown is transformed by show-business magic into a cacophony of pink, yellow and lavender flower blossoms.

"The government of Boaco Eight will express any fear the Federation tells it is appropriate, will jump through a hoop if the Federation so requires.

John Barrymore in Max Reinhardt's film of "A Midsummer Night's Dream": "a monstrous old male impersonator jumping through a hoop."

For example, a dog can be taught to jump through a hoop, but there is no stimulus to which jumping through a hoop is the unconditioned response.

She was destroyed by Shirobon's bomb when Dolphin Bomber tries to jump through a hoop created by modifying Gangu; she was turned back into a normal dolphin.

He was later promoted to the rank of soloist, with his first created role being 'the boy who jumps through a hoop' in Les Sirènes, a ballet by Sir Frederick Ashton.