When I told him I preferred quiet weekends, I added, 'not that there's anything wrong with that,' because everyone enjoys different things.

We had rehearsed everything for weeks, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip when the day finally arrived.

When the company offered free software, I reminded the team that there's no such thing as a free lunch, and hidden costs would likely appear later.

After months of wandering, Maria returned to her cozy apartment and, relieved, said there's no place like home.

He warned her about the get-rich-quick scheme, but she insisted on investing anyway — after all, there's a sucker born every minute.

When he stubbornly repeated the same mistake at sixty, his daughter sighed and muttered, "there's no fool like an old fool," under her breath.

Even as she shrugged and said there's a grain of truth in every joke, I could tell she was masking her pain.

I can't leave the scene because there's been an accident and the police are asking questions.

Faced with a filthy task no one wanted, Mary shrugged and quoted, "where there's muck there's brass," because she knew the pay would be good.

After spilling coffee on his report and losing hours of work, Mark sighed and said that there's no point crying over spilt milk before he began retyping the pages.