A: Picture that scene in old horror movies where a mad scientist holds up a bubbling beaker full of some strange toxic brew.

In the last two years many skeptics began warning that the red-hot housing market and adjustable-rate loans would blend into a toxic brew.

Replies: Unfortunately, this toxic brew is all short circuited to "ground", so I do not see any way of converting it into a battery.

On the day our paths do cross, it won't take much to see the job through, just a little toxic brew.

Western Europe, threatened by the toxic brew and dust flowing and blowing to its own doorstep, is offering aid.

Their toxic brew is carried aloft and deposited in Vermont and other downwind states.

She was desperate to comfort him, but her thoughts were awash in her own toxic brew of dark emotions.

Officials continued to warn people away from the debris because the shuttle operates on a toxic brew of chemicals and propellants.

Industries along the river continue to pour dangerous waste into the water, producing a toxic brew that has killed all the fish in the area downstream.

There are more toxic brews here than in the late state of Delaware.