"We've been in a couple extra innings and four barn burners," said Green.

"I thought for sure we were going to have a barn burner on our hands," Charles said.

Why should new small stock funds be such barn burners?

Are these changes sufficient to let investors ignore the funds' five-year records and concentrate on last year's barn burner?

"Until he made those pitches, it seemed like it was going to be another barn burner to me," Valentine said.

When Jesse decided to support me, he went all the way, with a barn burner that brought the house down.

This album is a barn raiser more than a barn burner.

And Professor Taylor's new book, while likely to do reasonably well, is not expected to be a barn burner.

Let's face it, there wasn't a barn burner on the list.

"It is fine out there, but it is not going to be a barn burner."