boom-or-bust

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.

“I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.

The back of her head will be quite in line with her charming little bust, and I for one shall walk round and laugh in her face.

Among these are "Medusa," a bronze bust; and a "Mater Dolorosa," in terra-cotta.

There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

It was destroyed in the fire, but has been replaced, and few could tell the present bust is not the original one.

“Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.