Object

• gut: Without busting a gut we quite quickly closed up on the van.

• bomb: This includes the on going debate as to the mystery heavy metal used in bunker busting bombs in Afghanistan.

• rise: Remember Thatcher giving what the Sun laughingly called an " inflation busting pay rise " to nurses?

Converse of object

• go: The ' wrong ' firms would then go bust.

• dot: Second, the dot com bust took some of the wind out of inflated domain name prices.

• sculpture: This included sculptured busts of Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Willard, Harriet Martineau, Mary Livermore and William Lloyd Garrison.

Preposition: at

• seam: A seven piece rhythm orchestra busting at the seams with music to kick your feet to.

Modifies a noun

• darts: Gorgeous tailoring and fit with bust darts for shape, pointed collars, matching domed plastic buttons to fasten and matching acetate lining.

• economics: Don't forget the mess we inherited in 1997: Boom bust economics.

• cycle: Blair and Brown claim they can get rid of the boom bust cycle.

• measurement: Example: Under bust measurement = 29 Over bust measurement = 38.

Noun used with modifier

• dotcom: The other interesting thing about it is that in many ways the dotcom bust gave people the impression that innovation had lost.

• marble: In the church there is a marble bust of the hero above his father's tomb.

• bronze: The bronze bust is now displayed in the study of Mr Townsend's home.

• portrait: In Room 14 is a Greek portrait bust of Socrates.

• plaster: Limited edition Special Souvenirs We have limited supplies of hand crafted white plaster busts of Karl Marx at £ 40 plus postage.

• boom: Don't forget the mess we inherited in 1997: Boom bust economics.

Possessives

• cycle: Gordon Brown says mortgages running for such lifelong terms will help avoid the dreaded ' boom and bust ' economy cycle.