As my grandmother used to say, every day is a school day, so don't be afraid to ask questions.

She saves every spare coin in a jar, convinced that many a mickle makes a muckle.

The factory has been on a go-slow since management announced the redundancies.

My grandmother's clock, though a century old, is still sound as a bell.

After flirting all night, Mark felt toey as a Roman sandal.

If you want to stand up to him, you need to grow a pair and speak your mind.

Having been dismissed for a duck in the first innings, he is now on a pair, still yet to open his account in the second.

At the street fair, the magician's chink-a-chink left the crowd baffled as four small objects seemed to hop across the felt with only a flick of his bare hands.

As the old proverb says, "feed a cold, starve a fever," but modern doctors often advise otherwise.