Fashion is a fickle mistress and a hundred years after they were last seen at the "Chelsea" of the day, gnomes from round the country are yet again heading back to the sacred showground of all things horticultural, fishing rods, toadstools and of course, gardening spades, packed and at the ready!
And the only thing more fickle than a fund manager is an Internet user, which is why so many jaundiced eyes are being cast on social media IPOs.
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Though plenty of investors deem it a good bet, its users are a fickle bunch who may be tempted away to a competitor offering a better deal than the 1-2% of pots that PartyGaming now takes.
However, money is a fickle guide, and probably even more so than usual in Europe, where the introduction of a single currency may well have distorted the figures.
Silence -- even when it's welcome -- is ultimately a fickle and fleeting illusion.
It's the sound of electronics being bent to the fickle whims of a human.
Wall Street is a fickle analyst, liable to change its mind at any minute.
Even artists, in all artistic endeavors, from dance to architecture, have accountability from a fickle and subjective public.
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"Theatre is such a fickle business, but is hard to know what has happened, " he told BBC News Interactive.
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Any in the path of the summer's Olympic Torch relay will know the fickle nature of a transitory event.
The reality is, of course, that the flu is a fickle proposition.
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It is hard to follow the lurching desires of a fickle public.
Online players are a fickle bunch who move to new games quickly.
Its customers are a fickle bunch, always ready to tear up their PCs to cram in the next hot graphics card from ati.
"It is a fickle business, " said Coulthard, who retired last year.
In fact, the picture is a charming, sophisticated comedy in which Garbo masquerades as twins in order to win the affection of a fickle Melvyn Douglas.
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Popular support is a fickle thing, and if the protest movement spreads in the coming weeks, as it very well might, Mr Sarkozy's poll ratings could slip.
First impressions count and smartphone users are a fickle bunch.
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Banished after a clash with the people's tribunes and a fickle mob, Coriolanus defects to the enemy camp, to his guerrilla rival, Aufidius, whom he admires, and prepares to sack Rome.
Video games are a fickle business, and the world of digital distribution is rife with clones and malware that can destroy the reputation of otherwise wonderful games produced by honest developers.
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One warning worth noting: momentum is a fickle mistress, and there are surely some Apple investors waiting on an earnings-related pop to take some money off the table or head for the exit.
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The financial market is a fickle opponent.
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Attempting to make snap historical sense of seemingly seismic shifts in national mood is also a notoriously fickle business, and in the UK in particular there should be a wariness of getting caught up too exuberantly in the moment.
It is greatest and growing fastest among Tory and Labour voters, not just among the poor disfranchised Liberals who are a fickle job-lot of voters anyway, nor among the Scottish and Welsh nationalists who could yet benefit (temporarily) by the present system.
Of course, the show has a fickle history full of surprises, and had I been writing such predictions back in Season 10, I would have picked Pia Toscano to at leach reach the final two, but she was shockingly cut almost immediately after reaching the Top 10, finishing ninth.
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Israel's fluid and fickle party structure reflected a blurring of the old hawk-dove demarcation.
The fickle market can crush a stock portfolio -- if she's still around, just ask Great Grandma.
But Burley will be hoping that the momentum built by Smith and carried on by McLeish is not lost among a sometimes fickle Scottish football public.
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Abercrombie is enjoying a streak of strong earnings in a weak retail environment, and is among the most savvy of marketers to a very fickle demographic.
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