He swallowed hard on his tea. —Well, ah must be making a move. Thanks again.

Sometimes Prakrit words were wrongly Sanskritised. Reference may be made in this connection to utkṛṣṭi derived from Prakrit ukkuṭṭhi (Sanskrit utkrośa) meaning 'wailing'. Similar is the case with ḍheṅku-kaḍḍhaka and nīla-ḍumphaka which appear to have been imperfectly Sanskritised.

The old guard is fighting his economic reforms tooth and tong.

…logically indistinguishable from the argument that because we do not know at what rate the angels dancing on the head of a pin are dying off…