So nationwide, these low down payment sales, like the subprime of old, are already coming back to bite the hand that fed them.
The venue chosen was Old Trafford, where - with their second bite at the cherry - Rapid progressed courtesy of a 1-0 win.
In fact, the 53-year-old chairman of the offshore-based Ace Limited is taking a bite out of such U.S. insurance giants as Chubb, Hartford Financial Services and the American International Group (AIG).
Not all of that growth has come out of the hide of old-fashioned phoning, but it is clearly taking a bite particularly among the young.
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One of the dogs got pretty close, but (just as he was getting ready to take a huge bite of turkey neck) that old turkey up and jumped the fence and ran down the road never to be seen again.
As for my conscience, I can take a lesson from my dear old dad, who retreats to the same sound bite every time we argue about Social Security and Medicare.
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.
It is certainly possible that he will have another bite at an oversized contract, as he will be only 31 years old at the end of this deal!
So far, the effect of the new interest-rate regime has not been great, but it will bite when old loans come due and are rolled over at terms more favorable to borrowers.
Yet it may take a less improvised tax system, as well as proof that the Fiscal Responsibility Law really does bite, to persuade investors that Brazil has finally given up its profligate old ways.
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Mother Lisa Fitzhugh didn't think much of the fuss until one day in the spring of 1994, when she gave her 18-month-old daughter, Erin, a bite of walnut.
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