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Heads will roll?

Sorry for being graphic but this helps you get the picture.

Hence today someone talks about “heads rolling” instead of saying plainly that someone’s going to get the sack, you understand that by “heads rolling”, the speaker means to say that they should be severely punished and not a day sooner!

In other words, it serves them right!

Or something to that emphatic effect.

Alright, without further ado, media examples:

1. The misery continues for those still remaining in Equitable Life.

Last week’s news that Ernst & Young had won a partial victory in the £2.6 billion legal battle initiated by the current board, is just the latest in a seemingly endless succession of depressing developments at the society whose name long ago became synonymous with all that is wrong with the regulation of the financial services industry.

As legal fees (to be settled out of policyholders’ dwindling funds) continue to soar, the board, led by Vanni Treves - himself a top-flight lawyer - must surely now face facts and decide not to appeal against the Ernst & Young decision.

Plans to sue the former directors and threats to take the Government to court at some future date are also beginning to look equally over-ambitious as the society fights to stem the flow of money from its depleted coffers.

As policyholders continue to quit the sinking ship, despite the hefty 20 per cent exit penalty, annuitants - who cannot move - can do little other than pray that their monthly pensions payments will continue.