Given a long stick and a stone too big to fit down the tube, they chose the stick without hesitation.
But the point is that we have -- our challenges are too big to get dragged down by these kinds of things.
The behemoth too big to fail banks were down 7.8% and 6.8% respectively.
In July, the woman in charge of determining which financial institutions are too big to fail will step down from her post as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Over the generations it has evolved into a tendency for Australians to bring back down to earth anyone they felt might be getting too big for themselves.
They thought you were too big for your boots and ought to be taken down a peg or two.
"It's a very big move for me and too good to turn down, " Ibrahimovic told a news conference at the Nou Camp following his signing.
At the other end of the spectrum, we included bikes that may be too big to store in a studio apartment but break down easily for travel perfect for a drive, or even a flight.
There can be no more too big to fail, there can be no more doubling down on a turn in the market, there should be no more taking on of vast debt, no borrowing short and spending long.
Worse still, if a large U.S. money center bank becomes too big to fail, can the regulators stab bondholders with the same type of cram down tactics experienced by Anglo Irish subordinated debt holders?
Everything (except the bed - "too big to bring our own") was a genuine domestic item from the home of CF chiefs, even down to the frayed Union Jack underpants slung on top of the linen basket.
It was all a little surreal for Ives, who maintains a down-to-earth modesty even though he's kind of a big thing, too.
Mr Frum believes that a future agreement to cut spending - he thinks America spends much too big a proportion of its GDP on health - and raise taxes, could very quickly bring the debt problem down to the level of quotidian normality.
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