In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
P. G. WodehouseAnd, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.
P. G. Wodehouse