Every Saturday morning, I grab my coffee and read Staggers and Naggers to catch up on political satire.

Children played in the garden, fascinated by the odd sight of worms and wheels side by side.

His Tom and Jerryism at the annual reunion embarrassed the more reserved guests.

At the village fair they served blanks and prizes, a hearty traditional English stew of peas and tender chunks of meat that warmed everyone on a rainy afternoon.

We got the antique clock for a song and dance, so it's practically a steal.

She bought the vintage dress for a song and a dance at the charity sale.

Watching them argue over the instructions, everyone called them Tweedledum and Tweedledumber for being nearly identical simpletons, the second even more dim-witted.

When the candidates clashed, the crowd mockingly dubbed them Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber.

The engineer replaced the faulty make-and-break that kept tripping and disrupting the laboratory's experiments.

The technician inspected the old relays to see if the make-and-breaks were causing the intermittent faults.