If you listen carefully, you'll be able to pick up what someone is putting down.

By nodding and laughing at the punchline, she was clearly picking up what someone is putting down during the stand-up routine.

I tried to laugh along, but when she kept mocking him, it is not funny anymore.

When he kept telling the same tired joke at the party, I muttered under my breath, it is not even funny.

I had been reading the minutes for hours; this is where I came in with the correction about the figures.

When choosing which restaurant to support, remember the proof is in the eating: try the food yourself before judging.

They started chatting and, before one knows where one is, the meeting had turned into a social gathering.

Don't come whining to me — sympathy is between shit and syphilis.

The Power ISA defines a RISC load instruction that improves cache efficiency in multicore processors.

In the old chronicle it is stated that King Eadric is gathered to one's fathers in the year of the famine.