He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.