But this sort of rejection can leave a sting.
When Ms. Dearie sings, "Don't come around to say goodbye/ Mustn't see a big star cry," investing the words with several layers of irony, they leave a sting.
And the moments immediately following will always leave a sting.
A day after revealing to a national television audience that he would play in Miami, James arrived to a welcoming city, leaving a stinging chorus of skepticism and resentment in his wake as three of last season's top nine scorers joined one team.
("Her bittersweet venom," the bar menu elaborated, "is addictive but always leaves a sting").
Even after Jackson's eventful Presidency — during which he moved thousands of Indians across the country, undermined the national bank, faced down South Carolina's attempt to nullify federal law, and triggered a new vehemence in partisan politics — he still remembered the letter as "justifying my acts, but leaving a sting behind".
Shakespear's comic genius resembles the bee rather in its power of extracting sweets from weeds or poisons, than in leaving a sting behind it".
He walked from court a free man but, along with his wife Sally and father Humphrey, he left with a stinging rebuke from the judge who described their 22-month campaign to clear his name as misleading and uninformed and said any notion the special forces soldier was a scapegoat was "absolute nonsense".
Kevin Thom, from Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World, said: "This spider isn't deadly but if (someone was) bitten, it would leave a real sting".
Sometimes it bites and leaves a slight sting, but aside from that, wolf spiders can be safely left alone to deal with flies (and we all hate flies, right?).
