Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I can't believe you finished the entire project in one night!

Her frequent to-and-fros between the two cities left her exhausted.

Their back-and-forth about the contract lasted all afternoon.

The team's back and forths over the project schedule eventually led to a clearer timeline.

In our small startup, the founders had to be chief cooks and bottle-washers to keep everything running.

She described her job at the family diner as head cook and bottle-washer, doing everything from menu planning to washing the bottles.

In the old ship's galley, the head cooks and bottle-washers argued about the best way to sterilize jars.

The company executives wined and dined the potential investors at a private yacht party to secure the deal.

When lost in the archive, he repeated the proverb seek and ye shall find and eventually discovered the missing records.

The novel felt like a horse and rabbit stew, all grandiose macho posturing sloshed together with tiny, trembling moments of lyricism that hardly got noticed.