The stock response in the City to the better-than-expected news on the public finances is to say it won't last.

To my ears, what you heard has the ring of stock response.

Her aunt's stock response, she said, was, "Don't talk about that."

His stock response in these situations is "it certainly looks like you're headed in the right direction".

This has been the stock response from the Dostum camp for the past two years.

"I'm not trying to think ahead" is Durant's stock response.

"Sort of a stock response," he complained later in an interview.

And there is good stuff beyond the often stock responses to questions at mass interviews in so-called media rooms.

That, after all, has been the stock response in previous slowdowns.

But international investigators are perplexed at the stock response from local officials that an investigation is still under way.