Since then, Americans have pretty much put tea off the boil and on the back burner.

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But Italy went off the boil as Romania fought back, and the Azzurri started making a catalogue of errors as well as looking lacklustre in defence.

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Just as they seemed to be on the verge of taking charge of the game, West Ham seemed to go off the boil and allow the visitors back into the match.

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Bad loans, lack of reserves, little restructuring and dismal profitability: if banks, prodded by the government, do not do something bold, the crisis will continue to simmer unless the economy shrinks again, in which case it will come back to the boil.

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In contrast, if a frog is placed in room-temperature water, which is gradually heated to a boil, the relaxed frog will kick back, stretch out, and calmly allow itself to be boiled to death.

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The watch in my left back pocket is a malignant tumor, an unripe boil.

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He returned to Liverpool in 1992 with Anfield fully expecting him to turn the heat back up under the team which had gone off the boil a little from the glory days of the 1970 and 80s.

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The European Union sovereign debt and financial crisis has gone from the back burner of the market place, to the front burner, and from a simmer to a medium boil.

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