Dr Wilkinson said the machines were unlikely to bite the hand that fed them.

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So nationwide, these low down payment sales, like the subprime of old, are already coming back to bite the hand that fed them.

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And he's paid well enough he might be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds him, by, for example, voting to cut an expense ratio.

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One would think that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi would have learned his lesson two weeks ago: Try not to bite the hand that you need to help feed your country.

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Producer James L. Brooks negotiated creative independence from the Fox network, and over the years creator Matt Groening and the show's writers haven't been shy to bite the hand that feeds them.

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My sisters, on the other hand, ate theirs with one bite.

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Offer the ordinary man in the street a salary of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, the opportunity to see the sunnier parts of the world for free and the option of retiring at 35 years old, and he would bite your hand off.

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