There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.