Sentences with phrase «how big that pond»

Just how big that pond is anybody's guess — the tech pundits and analysts would have us believe that selfie phones are driving growth in the market, but then most of those worthies define a selfie phone (rather loosely, in my humble opinion) as anything with a front camera of 8.0 - megapixels and above (hey, the Mi 4 had that TWO years ago).

Not exact matches

It's how the big fish in the pond stay the big fish.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

How adamant Rodgers was that Sterling wasn't for sale, claiming that he «wouldn't get the same opportunities» at other clubs really made Liverpool look like a very small fish in a big pond.

Porto are in many ways a big fish in a small pond; the Portuguese League generates an annual TV revenue of 50 million to split between its clubs, while a club like Arsenal alone earns more than that annually, just to put it in perspective how much of an uphill battle it is for Porto to mix it up deep in the Champions League.

It's a clear sign of how far the industry has moved on from the genre and how that could allow developer Undead Labs the chance to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond this time around.

For art lovers, many of whom drift down the street from the Menil Collection, the chapel is the place to see Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk - the big sculpture in the outdoor reflecting pond - and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that, depending on how you look at them: a) are hardly anything but big black rectangles; b) foretold the painter's suicide; c) were Rothko's crowning achievement; or d) any or all of the above.

Biglaw attorneys across the pond are out of touch, big time, with how the other half lives, writes John Malpas at Legal Week's Editors» Blog.

A big fish in a small pond, by contrast, chooses investment opportunities based on how much influence they can wield and how much expertise they can accumulate.