If you try growing a Big Boy, or Big Girl, or a Big Anything, it will, once it gets larger than a grape, succumb to something called blossom end rot.
The hook from their 2006 smash We Are Your Friends pokes out a fang a couple of times but is never fully uncaged, considered too populist perhaps – or maybe it is a casualty of dance music's reluctance to succumb to something as unchallenging as a greatest hits set.
Or is it a culprit in weakening a lobster so that it succumbs to something else, like chemicals or temperature?
But they had succumbed to something else that had left their tiny corpses in tatters, their wings scorched and pocked with holes.
After the battering of the past ten days, has the government of Tony Blair succumbed to something similar?Such judgments are easier, of course, with the benefit of hindsight.
It's one way to break free of the powerful orbit of home, by succumbing to something more dangerous, more seductive, than familial love.
In other words, I succumbed to something that's become a weird sub-ritual of American life — one that automatically precedes the macro-ritual of Thanksgiving itself: the Corporate Cafeteria Thanksgiving Preview, or C.C.T.P.
The finger of destiny points to poor Melville, who succumbs to something between stage fright and an existential anxiety attack; moaning that he can't do it, he goes walkabout, incognito, on the streets of Rome.
In the same Vanity Fair article, he observed that "I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me".
But the flipside of living longer is being exposed to the cruel, creeping, degenerative diseases of old age – certain cancers, or Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's – which we might once have escaped by the admittedly double-edged trick of succumbing to something else first.
In the end, each of these glittering lives succumbed to something mundane and murderous - cancers of one form or other, heart failure, a fall on the stairs, a urinary-tract infection, pneumonia - no one dies these days of old age, which is one of the reasons that the cancer statistics get worse and worse.
