Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

We’ll meet the meat.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.