But he couldn't find any bite marks anywhere on the foot where the symptoms had started.
In the end, he said, "We didn't establish any bite marks on Dutch".
"He won't get any bite in this area," shrugs one Treasury official.
"The American Disabilities Act is a good piece of legislation," he said, "but it doesn't have any bite.
Much too sweet, barely any bite, and not nearly enough of the ginger I was hoping to taste.
"They're talking like they're poised to strike again, but I don't know if there's any bite," he said.
Television watchers have become so accustomed to the comedy of the outtake that it's amazing the technique has any bite left at all.
As it happens, the main reason Dodd-Frank has any bite at all is that a variety of political opportunists intervened along the way.
If the ministerial exemption is to have any bite, there must be a way of distinguishing employees central to a religious association's core activities from employees who play only a supporting role (the example always given is janitors).
A pot-roasted saddle of mutton (£13) tasted beige, its splodge of salsa verde – an Italian relish that should be piquant with vinegar, with added kapow from anchovy and capers – so anglicised as to lack any bite at all.
My paintings have to be a bit nasty colour-wise to have any bite at all, and I've come to accept that anxiety is the only appropriate feeling for a contemporary figure painting.
