The raid failed when the lookout noticed the enemy group.

I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.

He was the king of stage presentation. When Duke [Ellington] would be playing he'd do a kind of jig, peckin' round the stage, and every time he'd shoot his cuffs he made his coat tail go up. Then he'd pull his coat down – and up went his cuffs!

A cat has nine lives.