By secretly donating to the charity while accepting the sponsor's praise, he was having it both ways and felt increasingly uneasy.

When I glanced away for a moment, he took it and slipped out of the room.

After the presentation fell apart, he tried to whip it on someone even though his errors caused the problems.

At the store the sign bluntly declared, 'you break it, you bought it,' so shoppers handled the fragile items very carefully.

Keeping it in one's pants on a first date shows respect for the other person's boundaries.

She had it both ways when she kept the stable job for security and worked on her startup on the side.

I was bricking it when I heard something moving in the attic last night.

When the lights flicker, he bricks it and hides under the blanket.

When a child accuses another by yelling "you smelt it, you dealt it", they're using a proverb to shift the blame to whoever first noticed the smell.