You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.