thank you for coming to my TED Talk, but seriously, let's focus on solutions.

Before sending the email, he remembered his mentor's advice that you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell, so he refrained from adding any personal remarks.

When discussing conflicts of interest, she cited the proverb you don't dip your pen in the company's ink to warn against using office supplies for personal gain.

Although their chemistry was obvious, they reminded each other that you don't dip your pen in company ink and kept things strictly professional.

We hoped to restore the battered old piano for the recital, but you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear, so we rented a newer instrument instead.

If you're really leaving, don't let the door hit you on the way out — we've had enough.

My grandmother always said, 'if you want a thing done well, do it yourself,' whenever she showed me how to mend a tear.