It could afford to eat some dust in copper for a while by relying on its coking coal and oil to pay the bills.
But the World Club Challenge has not seen such a sustained all-in dust-up as this for a while – in fact, since Manly's last appearance in the game 22 years ago, when their 8-2 defeat at Wigan was punctuated by a series of fights, and their second-row "Rambo Ronnie Gibbss was sent off.
Dust off the bookshelves, pull to the front all those books you've been meaning to read for a while, dust off the DVD and CD collections as well, reminding yourselves which movies you'd like to watch again and which music makes you feel good.
The gray dust floated atop the waves for a while but soon, saturated with water, sank and vanished.
When clearing away a desk that has been messy for a while, dust or wipe clean the desk surface, too.
The dust may be the stars' primordial gas and dust cloud that just "stayed around for a while," perhaps as raw material of planets, says Jack Lissauer, an astronomer at the NASA Ames Research Center in California.
Before George came with the truck, though, merchandise often collected dust for months, while its value plunged.
During the Fall, we used our journals to create a manuscript entitled, He Said, She Said: Adventures in Asia; this tale would gather dust for years while we lived in Los Angeles with busy 9-5 jobs.
If there's a bottle to be found at your local watering hole or in your liquor cabinet, it's probably been sitting there for a while, gathering dust.
