Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.