Politics is following the rest of American culture, and going pop.

Something went pop and I felt a sting in the back of my neck.

What's more surprising is how little anxiety he seems to feel about going pop.

When it goes pop i'll have no sympathy for those who jumped in.

Did Labour know the bubble was going to go pop or not?

And they really do go pop, especially in their cryptic use of yellow.

A pal of mine was in Argentina when it went pop.

He glanced up at Tohrment, thinking his eyes were going pop.

There was absolutely nothing to feel alarmed about in having a couple of street lamps go pop.

Rocko felt a blood vessel in his head go pop.

A period of austerity is typically followed by one in which country goes pop.

He told me that even though I wasn't getting big yardage, to stick with it and things would go pop!

Then the three of us walked back in silence, little puffbally things going pop under our feet.

She had a son to consider; she couldn't go popping into bed with the first new man who came along.

At the time of their marriage, she explained her need for diversion by saying that "too much religion makes me go pop."

But a few hadn't gone pop at all.

"You hit a bump in the road, then all of a sudden that tire goes pop," he says.

Every twenty or thirty feet something metal went pop!

Dad's money was in that business so if it had gone pop it really would have hurt.

If one of them goes pop then the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

But no team can afford to have two of its mightiest cannons go pop.

I had just decided I was managing very well - there's nothing to this after all - when something went pop.

He could have gone popping off to the authorities and made a fuss, but he didn't.

This time a crick in his neck went pop.

It's only a bloody tyre gone pop, small wonder you didn't see it.