Boris is now gobbling the roll on the floor, making quite a mess and growling and snapping his jaws.
Blackhawk, the nonunion operation that controls Kentucky's coal industry, is now gobbling up West Virginia companies, and people like Haltom and Cordell will have their hands full.
Indeed, China is now gobbling up everything from American homes and hotels and movie theater chains to government bonds, businesses, and, yes farmland and entire agricultural sectors.
That explains why the firm consistently beats its rivals on returns on capital, regardless of oil prices.For example, Exxon has refused to splurge on over-priced assets despite the huge cash pile it has thanks to high oil prices (a discipline not exercised by its smaller American rivals Chevron and ConocoPhilips, which are now gobbling up, respectively, Unocal and Burlington Resources).
Emboldened by the Fed's decision to lean toward a neutral stance on monetary policy, money managers are now gobbling up the stocks at the cutting edge of the bull market.
But it is a joke with an edge, given that the republican wolf, which the SDLP brought in from the political wilderness in the 1980s, is now threatening to gobble the party up at the polls on November 26.
So the hamburger and fry goliath is now aiming to gobble up the meal money of aging boomers by becoming more like sit-down restaurants.
Every one in four D-marks of taxpayers' money, declared Hans Eichel, the finance minister, was now being gobbled up by the debt charges.
The $60 and $70 dollar plans are now dead, gobbled up by the $50 dollar plan.
And where there was once river, there is now virgin land, inevitably gobbled up by the rich.
