Ah! he is one of your idols, I suppose, said Lord Norbourne, with a slight approach to a sneer. "Youth is prone to admire; but it is odd how, in a few years, we discover the defects of our demigods...

Some carriers are taking the smush to new heights. Spirit Airlines, for instance, uses seats on some flights with the backrest permanently set back three inches. Call it, as Spirit does, “prereclined.”

He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

She laughs when Mum calls herself a clog wog, and says they′re okay, just as buttoned-up as Anglo-Saxons.