boom-or-bust

Definitions

Examples

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

• Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.

• “I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

• Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.

• The back of her head will be quite in line with her charming little bust, and I for one shall walk round and laugh in her face.

• Among these are "Medusa," a bronze bust; and a "Mater Dolorosa," in terra-cotta.

• There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

• It was destroyed in the fire, but has been replaced, and few could tell the present bust is not the original one.

• “Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.