The interplay of policy, money and politics has so often combined to produce a toxic cocktail of dissent, delay and inaction.

Yet in spite of the toxic cocktail, he seems as sharp as ever, tossing out answers like perfectly aimed darts.

The toxic cocktail that is the Gowanus Canal took a century to mix.

The toxic cocktail means prices - also fuelled by higher VAT - are rising across the high street.

Newspapers printed images of cans of the drinks with headlines like "toxic cocktail."

I take the bottom sheet up, then remove the duvet cover and wrap them together; the pungent, toxic cocktail in the middle.

A toxic cocktail.

The cyanide and the acid mixed in a toxic cocktail that seeped from the mounds.

"You had a kind of toxic cocktail," he said.

The unprecedented economic crisis and the growing immigration problem are combining to form a toxic cocktail which feeds extremes and excesses.