A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.