Youch! I stubbed my toe!

Sesame Street is McEducation. Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity

A miniature giant is a contradiction in terms.

She had given a card-assembly, and a petit-souper; […] Mrs. Chartres told her son, with an air of triumph, that the evening had gone off remarkably well.