Let Bob’s lesson be a lesson to us all, then. Perhaps there is a time and place for everything. Once an opportunity passes, it’s over.
The thing for Bob to do now is not to look back, but forward. Talk to other people. Look for new, perhaps even better opportunities elsewhere.
Alright, here are recent media examples of the phrase “off the table”:
1. The prospect of a dangerous confrontation between American and Iran was raised on Wednesday night after vice-president Joe Biden said no retaliatory options had been “taken off the table” over Tehran’s alleged involvement in an “outrageous” terror plot on US soil.
Mr Biden set out Washington’s determination to punish Tehran for its alleged ties to a plot to kill Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi Ambassador in Washington.
“We’re in the process of uniting world public opinion continuing to isolate and condemn their behaviour,” the vice president said. “Nothing has been taken off the table.”
- America warns nothing has been ‘taken off the table’ over alleged Iranian terror plot, Telegraph.co.uk, October 12, 2011.
2. Foreign Minister Bob Carr says international sanctions against Iran are working and threats of military strikes should be taken off the table.
Senator Carr said Australia totally opposed Iran’s nuclear program but military action was unlikely to be successful.
“It should be off the table as we persist with sanctions, and persist with seeking a negotiated settlement,” Senator Carr told Sky News on Thursday.
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