The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a 2-dimensional or a three-generator Artin group A to be (virtually) cocompactly cubulated, in terms of the defining graph of A..