They're going to have to belly up to the bar and take up these difficult issues, said G. William Hoagland, who served as director of budget and appropriations.

This was a golden age—the time before a concerted effort was made to vaginize our boys and grow testicles on our girls.

[…] in my conworld Almea the great navigators of southern Ereláe were the Jei, and undoubtedly Jei-based pidgins sprung up.

to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket