He ordered himself a bavaroise and he had begun to sip it when he was aware of a presence at his elbow.

“Wassis? Alligator skin?”' Nussbaum does a Richard Pryor accent. “'No fuckin' class, Whitey!”

I'll slot you in between my 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock appointment.

The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.