1.   Close but an exploding cigar.

2.   Deliver the exploding cigar.

3.   Fruit-topped chanteuse Carmen Miranda and the great Cuban band leader Xavier Cugat were involved with nearly every cut, making for an exploding cigar of an album.

4.   It probably should not have surprised anyone, given the history of the Clinton Presidency as exploding cigar, where the only absolute certainty is no certainty.

5.   That exploding cigar aside, it is also meticulously realized and intelligent in the most achingly human kind of way.

6.   The strategy worked about as well as its plot a few years later to hand Castro an exploding cigar.

7.   They dispatched exploding cigars.

8.   Deadly pens and exploding cigars?

9.   Abdullah said he had been ordered by a Sudanese intelligence officer to slip the exiled opposition leader an exploding cigar, adding that others were involved in the plot.