Other names include boiler cupboard , or (in Ireland) hot press .

They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

Pursuant to the Benes decrees of 1945, the family's properties in Czechoslovakia were confiscated, including Aich Castle, where the stocks were hidden in a hall cupboard.

I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Armies.

I was still scared of egg spraying, and continued to catch them with a cup or a bowl, kept handy in a cupboard in case of a cockroach emergency.

And We said , Take a broom in your hand and strike her with it , and do not break your vow We indeed found him patiently enduring what an excellent bondman ! He is indeed most inclined .

When Barroso, the former Portuguese prime minister, was awarded the EU post by his fellow heads of government, he appeared to be a dynamic new broom who would sweep away the cobwebs left by his predecessor, Italy s Romano Prodi.

Plans with names like Strong Hand in El Salvador, The Broom in Guatemala, and Blue Liberty in Honduras have been created to deal with the problem, but all ignore prevention, overlook the social roots of the phenomena, and concentrate on applying force.

His early promise to be the EU executive body s new broom has turned into a steady as she goes captaincy, and there s the added question of whether his re appointment might turn the job into a standard 10 year post for his successors, regardless of their abilities.

Dambudzo Marechera's Facebook page celebrates the life and times of one of the most eccentric figures in African literature. Marechera was a Zimbabwean writer and poet who died at the age of 35 in 1987 after leading a life that he described as an attempt to make myself a skeleton in my own cupboard.