What must have really stung was that the top-placed European whisky was the Chapter 14 Not Peated, which is from England! You'd be a brave man to order that at the Highlander.
Moments previously, Bastian Schweinsteiger had stung the palms of M'Bolhi in the Algeria goal with a rising drive from distance.
Yes, he has secured worthwhile tweaks for the very worst-off, but the big picture is that moderate earners will be stung to the tune of 9p in the pound on income tax, while the wealthiest graduates will be free to clear their debts rapidly.
Related: David Cameron lays out plans for 'blue-collar Conservatism' as cabinet meets Evidently stung by charges of running a posh "chumocracy", Cameron has promoted comprehensive school educated MPs – Javid, Priti Patel, Greg Clark and David Mundell.
The last time I was stung by a wasp, I reacted very badly - my tongue swelled up and nearly choked me - so I now take a daily antihistamine during the summer to prevent it happening again.
A friend says that there's an injection I can give myself if I'm stung.
My dad's words stung as I entered the unusually gloomy kitchen one afternoon.
It came at the height of the cold war, after the US had been stung by the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik 1, the first orbiting satellite, and so proved a sensation.
Omega Pharma Quickstep team boss Patrick Lefevere was less philosophical: "It changes everything for us as the team was built entirely around him" The team's plans have apparently been further disrupted by second choice sprinter Alessandro Petacchi going down with an allergy after being stung by a bee.
(Beckett's Molloy would later wrap himself in its pages and note its impermeability to farts, but the critic's words, if hackneyed, are not unfair or untrue. Which may have been one reason they stung).
Some like to drink it, others need it to draw out venom, having been careless enough to be stung by lurking weaver fish.
