The three-foot long parasite grows in the body for one year and feels like a hot iron hit the skin when it emerges.

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There are gruesome tests to prove adultery, such as the hot-iron ordeal practiced earlier this century in India.

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It would take cold, hard steel, made from hot molten iron.

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But instead of striking while the iron is hot, college football leaves ample time for it to cool.

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Striking while the iron is hot to maximize interest, exposure, and financial betterment.

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Instead of striking while the iron is hot, it takes weeks and weeks of polite discussion before anything happens at all.

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"I had to strike while the iron was hot, " says Ms. Brett, 48, who named her start-up Veronica Brett after an aunt who died of breast cancer in 1975.

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You've got to strike while the iron is hot.

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Strike while the iron is hot.

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The iron was hot.

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Strike while the iron's hot and ask newly former colleagues, their faces pinched with pity, to write you recommendations on your LinkedIn profile.

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Now iron ore has been added to the list of hot commodities.

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