You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.
The market has no morality
It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.