I'm off out for a spin in my new sports car.

to preserve order in a community or an assembly

The big difference between the average biblical scholar and a semiotician is, that the latter is not a consumer of texts, but tries to become, together with the text, a co-producer of meaning.

Tiffany's salesman: This, I take it, was not purchased at Tiffany’s? Paul Varjak: No, actually it was purchased concurrent with, uh, well, actually, came inside of… well, a box of Cracker Jack.