An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.