But what he pulled up from the depths looked more like a lizard than a fish, with greenish-brown skin, a snub nose and tiny legs.

WSJ: Fishing Is Just Not the Same Without a Very Cold Brew

The stockmarket says much the same: well up from the depths it plumbed as Hong Kong crashed, it is still well below the heights to which it had climbed earlier this year.

ECONOMIST: Argentina

We think -- nay, we hope -- that we've at long last reached the nadir of Motorola's naming convention and are finally on our way up from the depths of marketing hell now that the company has announced its new Android app store for China.

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Then, at my first restaurant job, I was asked to come up with a new entree, and from the depths of my subconscious came the idea: fesenjan.

WSJ: A Journey to Iran, by Way of the Kitchen

From the depths of the ocean to somewhere way up in the clouds, Bioshock has given us a new wonky city to explore, Columbia.

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Ms Bravo may yet find that she has pulled Burberry from the obscure depths of one conglomerate, only to see it swallowed up by another.

ECONOMIST: Face value