While his leadership could be undermined if the anti-terror legislation vote is lost, Downing Street was buoyed last night by a poll that showed widespread public support for the move.
When the answer to America's debt problems is something that could be lost down the back of a sofa, it's no answer at all.
It is not just a work of art of the highest order but a poignant symbol of just what marvels have been lost down the centuries.
Admittedly he does now resemble a boiled sweet that was lost down the back of the sofa only to be unearthed months later, fuzzy and misshapen.
For most of us, a passport is little more than an embossed identity card to be lost down the side of filing cabinets and searched for wildly the night before a holiday.
By the song's end she's lost down some sort of wormhole: "I see a light coming towards me, moving slowly but coming quickly at the same time.
14 Dec: Ninnis, the six best dogs, almost all of the food and the bulk of their most important equipment - including their tent - are lost down a crevasse 11ft wide and 150ft deep.
They were also losing dogs; one broke his leg and was shot, another fell ill, and a third was lost down a crevasse.
He was the father of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, an explorer who was lost down a crevasse during the 1911 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
I've often feared that the things that defined me before I became a caregiver – work, creative interests and a social life – have been lost down a well of grief and exhaustion.
