Is being Prime Minister during Brexit a poison chalice?

He started South Africa's first World Cup game against Japan, a match that proved a poison chalice.

Harris was elected to the Dáil in 2011; five years later he was given the political equivalent of a poison chalice.

We take a look at the men who have sipped from the poison chalice since South Africa hosted the global spectacle over nine years ago.

So the poisoned chalice was handed to George Tenet-theonly choice remaining.

Or, perhaps I should commiserate with you for inheriting a poisoned chalice.

But this year, it has become a poisoned chalice of sorts.

It was something of a poisoned chalice for a young writer.

Suddenly Shorten's poisoned chalice turned into a tall drink of water.

Did not even-handed justice erelong commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips?

From the bands' point of view, social media is fast becoming a poisoned chalice.

Has this ' poisoned chalice' path to the Cup Final ever concluded with the runners-up?

A toxic legacy Ramaphosa has been handed a poisoned chalice.

For some critics, though, the Games represent a poisoned chalice.

Auckland Central voter Roger Reynolds said: This leadership is said to be a poisoned chalice.

MICHAEL Noonan has been handed something of a poisoned chalice where food safety is concerned.