When she said my report was "surprisingly coherent," I knew it was a left-handed compliment.

With runners on second and third and two outs, the manager summoned a left-handed specialist to try to retire the opposing team's struggling switch-hitter.

After the concert, she offered me a left-handed cigarette and we sat on the curb talking until dawn.

The mechanic requested two left-handed monkey wrenches for the antique bicycle restoration.

He sent me to buy a left-handed monkey wrench, and I only realized later he'd been sending me on a fool's errand.