[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives:

to leap a wall or a ditch

I was miffed at Rick for his behavior. I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity.

One librarian said, I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers.