A loss would be a correspondingly stinging defeat.
This sting of all this would be a little less painful if I could at least use the Ipod part of the device.
When Lou did something bad -- and there would normally be a sting -- the music is celebration, inspiration, it lulls the audience into a different place.
Soon, down at street level, there would be the sting of teargas in the eyes and the crunch of broken glass underfoot.
"In the event you were to do something foolish, you would be stung with a shot," the judge, William J. Martini of United States District Court here, said during a hearing last month.
When O'Dwyer reported to the London police station in May 2011, he was told that the UK case against him wouldn't be pursued – but there was a sting in the tail.
It would be likely to sting Trump, who ran on an explicitly anti-LGBTQ platform and has voiced support for North Carolina's House Bill 2, which prohibits trans people from using the appropriate restroom. .
Although Chicago might have lost to Rio de Janeiro for reasons that had little to do with Mr. Obama, the fact that he made himself the face of its bid invariably meant that its defeat would be taken as a stinging rejection of its favorite son.
(For those not familiar with the parable, the tale goes thusly: a scorpion implores a frog to carry it across a river. At first the frog rejects the idea, fearing it would be fatally stung.
