"Well, if we knew that, Colonel, we'd be off stomping on someone's neck," Szilard said.

To me, it has always sounded like stomping on someone's toe when he has a toothache, to distract him from the pain.

They stomp on someone's dream.

When not stomping on someone's solar plexus, this amnesiac superspy tends to look like a college graduate on a European amble.