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Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company
Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.