Let's peg the rug to the floor.

We loved each other at once, but she was betrothed to her guardian Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor.

The petticoated-intrusion may be resented by a few cross-grained “theologs,” bachelors before their time, or womanhaters because some boarding-school miss has failed to fulfill their idea of fidelity.

We've got some bogeys at six o'clock.