Such business...is often introduced in some kind of ‘dumb show', either in silence or accompanied by music or indecipherable stage noise (‘rhubarb', etc.).
Speaking by telephone from his desert home near Palm Springs, California, he told a reporter in Philadelphia: I don't want to be around when there's a rhubarb going on.
The idea was to take full advantage of low cloud and poor visibility and slip sections of Spitfires across the coast and then let-down below the cloud to search for opportunity targets.
I'm thinking about planting a row of rhubarb this year. What do you think? You always used to love my rhubarb bread..
Spoke relished confrontations with umpires, never backing down from a rhubarb. Teammates marveled at his capacity to yell so hard his face would turn blue.