No excuses for not playing on, Torre agreed, after lobbing a few verbal grenades at the umps.

Moments later, a blonde speed addict lobs verbal grenades at upwardly mobile newcomers to the neighborhood as they step from their cabs.

Bashir smirked, a sure sign that one more verbal grenade was coming O'Brien's way.

Emperor and emperor-slayer, the two share the very un-Japanese habit of tossing verbal grenades at each other, making no attempt to hide their mutual contempt.

Her teammates are usually the targets of her verbal grenades.

Onetime throwaway lines by politicians now turn into verbal grenades.

No wonder that Ed Miliband has found it so easy to lob verbal grenades.

The likelihood of the season beginning in early December is fading with each verbal grenade.

But he did explain, and in the process, whether intentionally or not, he lobbed a verbal grenade at the New York Philharmonic.

The players' union and the league lobbed verbal grenades at each other in the dispute, which involves the distribution of about $2 billion in league income.