The rose of love she wore for him blushed with a crimson flame, / And in her eyes the fire of life upflickered as he came.

I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.

Space elevators proposed for the Earth require novel high-strength materials and a substantial counterweight for their implementation. The problem becomes easier for Mars. There is no available counterweight for a synchronous beanstalk but Phobos proves a substantial anchor in non-synchronous orbit. A tether extending 1456 km from Phobos could release objects into an orbit just entering the Martian atmosphere, providing a launch and recovery device for Mars Excursion Modules. Extending the beanstalk to a length of 5832 km would place the end at the fringes of the Martian atmosphere.

Some comparisons in general use partake of the humorous and satirical, as when one man is said to comport himself “like a bull in a china shop”.