He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.