IF you want to sell your house, the usual drill is to clean the closets, repaint chipped kitchen cabinets and call a broker.

All this makes reading the book much more fun than the usual drill of poking at adorable animals for the sake of counting alone.

The usual drill is this: they consider the matter, then work a toe under the log and flip it.

Run through the installer, hit "next" a bunch of times, the usual drill.

Her husband immediately put their sons, Jamie and 14-year-old Ryan, through the usual pregame drills.

In the meantime, I suffered through the usual drill.

'We'll have the usual drills,' Ashiant said, rising then.

Repetitive motions add to the effect, and the opening act down onstage runs through the usual drills.

I know, so let's try the usual drill.

Now we'll make a start with the usual drill.