She reminded him that you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube, so he thought twice before responding.

He realized, too late, that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after his angry comment spread through the office.

When he started bragging about the small win, I muttered, "Don't break one's arm patting oneself on the back," because nobody likes a show-off.

Honestly, I wouldn't date him — he seems to have a face like the back end of a bus.

It's rare to see someone so prim decide to let one's short back and sides down, but last night it happened.

When someone asks if I love chocolate, I reply, 'does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?'

She leaned in and whispered, 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours,' making it clear she expected a favor in return.

On the old New England farm, the big house, little house, back house, and barn were linked by covered passages, so the whole complex felt like one rambling farmhouse.

He muttered "once you go black, you never go back" as if it were a proverb, which made several people uncomfortable.

As a political proverb goes, if you go far enough left, you get your guns back, suggesting that liberals and center-left politicians who favor gun control may be contrasted by far-left groups who oppose those restrictions.