The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!

Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.

Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent. It was like a roadstead crowded with tall fairy-shipping. New York: Viking, Chapter IX, p. 248, https://archive.org/details/cu31924010564429

A legion of tailors came to Adonize him, but he puzzled them all.