Every invitation to join the cabinet is also a snub, and every snub a potential defection.
Citrix might also be feeling the burn of a snub from OpenStack.
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.
Inevitably, the move will be interpreted as a snub to the British government because of its reluctance to join the first wave of Europe's single currency.
NATO's European pillar should not be presented as a snub to America or an insurance policy against an American loss of interest, but as a necessity, whatever America does.
Ariel Sharon has promised to expedite Israeli military operations, but anything short of a full pullout would be seen as a snub as US Secretary of State Colin Powell travels to the region.
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But the lack of an Oscar nomination was widely seen as a major snub.
This was taken in Germany as a deliberate snub, increasing anti-British feeling.
The two players came face to face at Stamford Bridge on Saturday but Bridge refused to shake Terry's hand before kick-off in a humiliating snub.
While Argo was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, Affleck was passed over in the directing category, something many see as a huge snub.
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St James's Palace has dismissed any suggestion of a "snub" towards Mr Blair and Mr Brown, but shadow justice minister Chris Bryant said he was unhappy with their exclusion.
No: Mr Prodi's people went out of their way to make clear that it was a deliberate snub to Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and the summit's host.
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Forty Conservative MPs wrote to the Sunday Telegraph praising the principles of the bill, without mentioning Andrew Lansley - something the newspaper suggests is a "snub" to the health secretary.
Democrats trooped to the floor to ridicule the Speaker Newt Gingrich for allowing his personal anger over a perceived snub by President Clinton to influence his attitude during budget negotiations.
In the highly choreographed, highly status-conscious world of diplomatic protocol, it would be hard to imagine a more blatant snub.
The controversy likely played a part in her snub, but I believe there are also other reasons.
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In a year full of powerhouse contenders, "Argo" simply benefited from the snub because it made voters reconsider a film that debuted very early in the season.
Paige, who is now a business development director for the sports arm of an engineering firm, is also not convinced by the effectiveness of the boycott, which came close to destroying the Olympic movement and led to a tit-for-tat snub of the 1984 Los Angeles Games by the Soviet Union and its allies.
The tastes of the directing branch skews indie, arty, and avant-garde, but from talking to voters, it seems as though the Affleck snub came about simply because a majority of nominators were so sure Affleck was in that they spent their votes on longshots, such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild's" Benh Zeitlin and "Amour's" Michael Haneke.
The biggest snub was Kathryn Bigelow not earning a directing nomination for Zero Dark Thirty.
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Though the Europeans did not spell out the reasons for their snub, it was plainly intended as a stern message that intolerance and xenophobia were unacceptable in Europe today.
The snub occurred after the World Cup hosts earned a 2-1 win over the French, with both teams being knocked out.
Paint is a two-tone finish with blue gloss on the snub-nose body and glossy black for the windshield pillar, the two roof sections and the rear window area.
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I'm taking a morose tone at this point with Garrison Keillor giving me the snub.
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