Gardenhose

Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation.

President Roosevelt launched the Lend-Lease idea at a press conference in November 1940 with the parable “suppose my neighbor's house catches fire, and I have the length of a gardenhose...”

We can make artificial rainbows with a gardenhose and a sprinkler head adjusted for a very fine spray.

They hamper progress over the black, volcanic rubble of the Aleutian Island beaches but are handy in sea sprint. His tail, which looks like a piece of flattened gardenhose, serves as an oar.

“Now then about machine guns: They work sort of like a gardenhose except they spray death.” - Kurt Vonnegut (1970)