windup

After all that windup, it was finally time for Mitt Romney to make the most difficult and important sales pitch of his life.

But his long windup also has given time for his team to build an operation, prepare for a long season, and raise money.

“I find that a bit of noise always helps after we get the windup with the bayonet, sir,” he explained to Dalroy.

It would have been something of a windup to send the boy to the penitentiary.

He stopped his windup and threw to Menken, who was covering the rubber and yelling to him to throw.

Our morning meal was like a capital English breakfast, with coffee by way of a windup.

He was disguised as a prima ballerina for the purpose, and as a windup he danced, with great skill and abandon, a can-can.