If you're bored, get a hammer and chisel and start chiselling something or do the washing up.

BBC: Life on Sealand: Firearms, fishing and the Cosmic Sea Cat

But after chiselling away at public debt during the boom years, insists Mr Darling, the government can now safely borrow a bit more to prime the pump.

ECONOMIST: The politics of a shrinking economy

Then, after 12 weeks' of hammering and chiselling, Kayes will witness Hatton contest the fight of his life before watching him slip into the layabout routine which has become his custom.

BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

Men and women she may or may not recognize movie stars, rappers, models loom above them, magnified a thousand per cent, their eyes the size of swimming pools, their teeth cliff walls she could hide behind or possibly dwell in, like the Anasazi, chiselling toeholds so she might scale down at night to forage.

NEWYORKER: M&M World