It shrank the mainframe computer to fit on the desktop, shrank it again to fit on our laps and again to fit into our shirt pockets.
That doesn't mean another Apollo-style "flags and footprints" bash that briefly doubles the NASA budget and then shrinks it back again, leaving everyone with indelible memories and a crippling hangover.
You can shrink it down again when things have improved.
Although the abscess temporarily had shrunk, it grew again 3 months later.
The economy contracted by a surprise 0.3% in the last three months of 2012 and if it shrinks again in the subsequent three months it would be regarded as once again in recession.
The government had to give a sign to payroll employees, who cannot dodge because their tax is deducted at source, that there are benefits from the clampdown on the less honest of their self-employed peers.A more pertinent criticism of the 2008 budget is that it again shrinks from spending cuts.
Last year, it shrank again, by a fraction of a percent.
Japan's economy has started to grow, but an overly tight monetary policy and a strong yen could easily make it shrink again.
On some aircraft that conducted a retiring supersonic flight, the flight engineers placed their caps in this expanded gap, wedging the cap when it shrank again.
