fleabite

Before they closed, I found myself shouting, “You’re a fleabite, Sampson! An infected fleabite!”

Once there, it could make more copies of itself, making it more likely to be transmitted to another person, whether by coughing or by fleabite.

And that was a mere fleabite compared with his grander ambitions.

That fleabite didn’t cause it sufficient discomfort to make it change its ways or its IT systems, so now it has been fined again.

Insiders say we may have to wait until after the German elections to get a final decision on the FTT's shape, but given Europe's propensity for lowest-common-denominator muddling-through, it looks likely the outcome may turn out to be a fleabite, instead of the mighty arrow aimed at the heart of the markets the Robin Hood campaigners hoped for.