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The hopes of the nation at this year's Eurovision – the 60th – will fall on Electro Velvet and their song, Still in Love With You, which the Guardian has already declared a "stinker".
Capable of greatness, as she produced at Wimbledon last summer in crushing Eugenie Bouchard of Canada in the final, she is also likely to throw in the odd stinker , like last year when she lost to Thailand's Luksika Kumkhum in round one.
Some inborn errors can be fatal: an example is Tay-Sachs disease, in which a critical cellular enzyme is disabled, leading to muscular and mental deterioration.In this section New drugs for old habits Hook, line and stinker The plot thickens Power from the people ReprintsTrimethylaminuria is caused by a dodgy gene that prevents production of a key liver enzyme.
He says that spreads have narrowed since next-day publication was introduced, but that they are still too wide: one prime stinker this week had a spread of almost ten percentage points.
The deal that Mr Cameron blocked a German scheme to starve the euro zone to health, bolted onto a French plot to marginalise Britain and create a congenial (ie, Gallic) mini-club within the wider union was a stinker that will do nothing to restore market confidence in the tottering single currency.
In contrast, when they've fielded a stinker , like last year's club, their attendance has dropped to the cellar.
Another fifth sits in an electricity unit committed to building a big power plant which, like many rivals', will lose money at today's coal prices.The biggest stinker is the mobile-telecoms arm.
But what looked like a steal is now widely viewed as a stinker , thanks to still-accelerating falls in house prices.
Vodafone's purchase of its Indian mobile unit was the largest deal ever, and a stinker.
Meanwhile, however, the world has marvelled at the way one stinker after another has been almost elegantly thrown out of office most recently in Georgia, Ukraine and Kirgizstan with scarcely any trouble or expense on the part of outsiders.
He was succeeded as chief executive by Brian Moynihan (pictured), who joined BofA in 2004 when it bought his employer at the time.Though the outrage has ebbed in recent months and BofA has repaid the $45 billion it got from the taxpayer, the perception lingers that the Merrill deal was a stinker.
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The primary grammatical function of "stinker" is a noun , used to describe something or someone considered extremely unpleasant, offensive, or of very poor quality. Ludwig provides examples where "stinker" refers to a bad movie, a poor performance, or a contemptible person.
Expression frequency: Very common
