During the noisy meeting I leaned in and whispered, 'please say that again,' because I hadn't caught the last point.

He always leaves everything to the last minute; that figures.

He sat at the table like a cat that ate the canary after they discovered he had taken the last slice of cake.

The police interviewed the neighbors after the cat that swallowed the canary was spotted sitting smugly on the windowsill.

The council agreed on a new sustainability plan, and to that end they allocated additional funding for renewable energy projects.

I don't like spicy food, and my brother doesn't either, for that matter.

If you follow the creek thataway, you'll find the old mill by sundown.

Before we decide to go down that road, let's weigh the long-term consequences.

Some policymakers attempted to Thatcherise the country's economy by privatizing state-owned industries.