Her response was of a piece with her previous remarks, showing the same dismissive tone.

I must make a clean breast of it and tell you what really happened.

She warned us not to buy pigs in a poke during the market's chaotic final hour.

After two failed attempts to start the engine, I reminded myself of my father's saying 'third time's a charm' and tried once more, finally getting it to run.

Researchers developed several new labs on a chip to speed up disease diagnosis.

When he gets angry, he speaks with the mouth of a sailor, and the people around him blush.

I tried to fix the outdated interface, but you can't polish a turd — it's time to rebuild from scratch.

The gangster warned he would bust a cap in someone's ass if anyone betrayed him.

After the gale, the old lantern hanged by a thread from its hook until we rescued it.

She collected messages in a bottle from the shoreline and read them aloud.