If loose lips sink ships, a too-revealing mystery shopper could certainly submerge an hotelier or two.
But euro-zone policy makers may not have the luxury of time, particularly if loose talk of depositor haircuts continues to circulate in a country where a quarter of deposits are foreign-owned with overnight notice.
Troody, a small robot dinosaur, walks across Peter Dilworth 's desk, jangling as if she has loose change in her pockets.
The dollar's anchor, if a bit loose at present, has been especially significant in much of Asia, with economies tending to pivot around the buck.
The owner, an Indian, sold him all the rope he had in stock: forty yards of braided hemp, which Pereda examined at length, as if looking for loose threads.
Until the problem was fixed, Discovery had to sit at least 120 metres (400 feet) from the station for fear that its thrusters might damage the fragile wing if it was loose.
But if their organisation is loose, the protesters show a remarkable unity of purpose.
It almost makes me wonder if he was set loose on Gotham by the League of Shadows.
"If a virus gets loose, it will spread a lot faster than anything in the PC world, " said Candia.
If a virus gets loose, isolate those systems and start cleaning up files.
Mabel Normand, a loose lip if ever there was one, is superbly captured.
In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.
Update the roof: repair loose shingles and if your abode sits in a hurricane-vulnerable locale, consider adding gable end braces.
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With the crew perched in a basketlike cockpit at the stern, there's little chance of their staying aboard if the steering skate breaks loose.
Retiring at different times can be a nightmare if one partner is at loose ends trying to figure out their new identity, while the other is still in the same work mode.
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However, if the ball is covered by loose impediments and a player moves it in a hazard, or obstacle area, a penalty of one stroke applies.
If the World Bank cut Wolfowitz loose, the inevitable perception, valid or not, is that Europeans at such organizations will close ranks around their own but not necessarily an outsider.
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He was able to use his position of power within Apple to both energize innovation project teams, set them loose, and then, if necessary, protect them.
The agreement required Andersen Consulting to pay Arthur Andersen an annual fee, and stipulated a prohibitively expensive fine if the consultants ever sought to break loose.
Abendanon then rubbed further salt into Saracens wounds when he grabbed an opportunist, if controversial, try, hacking the loose ball on to touch down after scrum-half Michael Claassens' kick deflected off referee Tim Wigglesworth.
Mr Trinsi said that his investigations showed that simply moving the structure to a different location could cause the fixing to come loose and said that, if the side was then kicked by a small child, it would easily come away.
If the result is positive, several astronomical loose ends will have been tied together in a highly satisfactory manner.
If the majority of your life savings is loose change that fell out of your pocket into the car seat or recliner, you might be an underachiever.
If the boat is stopped, the crew cuts loose the shipment, which sinks, buoy and all.
For a while, he hung around with Frank -- who was still on the loose -- the school never cared if he came back.
Admittedly, even this loose alignment would be a glorious sight, if it were visible.
If there is much waste in the business and a loose focus on customer value (typically this is a yes).
Experience shows that if the dollar price of the yellow metal goes down, the Fed is being too tight, and if the price surges, the Fed is being too loose.
If scientists are going to adopt a position that literally plays loose with the scientific evidence, then, well, what do you do?
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