It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.