Tho' stuffed with hoops and armed with ribs of whale.

I wish I were married to Keane. I'd make him jump through hoops.

The bulkheads have now turned into hoops of cane, but it's ultimately the same structure.

Come out of the station, West 4th near the park, brothers shooting hoops and someone remarks,

Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?

And so the kids are raised in a certain way, jumping through achievement hoops of the things we can measure

And so the kids are raised in a certain way, jumping through achievement hoops of the things we can measure SAT prep, oboe, soccer practice.

So as an academic, we're always trained to be able to jump through hoops to raise funding for our labs, and we get our robots to do that.

There were more than forty United States senators on that bill as co sponsors, so they were already a long, long way to getting the sixty votes to have it clear all the procedural hoops.

In principle, one can create a cap and trade system of quantitative restrictions that accomplishes much the same thing and this seems to be more palatable to politicians, who will jump through hoops to avoid using the word tax.

We're taught to regurgitate that information for tests, to give the answer that those in authority demand, but most of all we're conditioned to conform, and the reward for faithfully jumping through all of these hoops for 13 years is a worthless piece of paper that no employer even asks to see.