They speak as if the market is a mysterious, bottomless pit into which one's hand is dipped and the necessary funds for investment are produced.
I emphasise the point that the prawn fishery is not a bottomless pit.
We all know that the bottomless pit is not there and never has been.
Indeed, it is a case not so much of painting the lily as of deepening the bottomless pit.
What worries me is that there is not a bottomless pit of cash.
There is not a bottomless pit from which we can draw resources to feed the nations of the world for ever and ever.
They have poured money and arms into that country—into a bottomless pit.
But many of us feel that this is pouring money into a bottomless pit and that it will produce no good results.
