My grandfather (unaware that he was using antique terms) would often say ruefully that I would drive him spare. The idea was that my behaviour would so dement him as to drive him berserk.

He [Pierre Trudeau] called for peace “with my fellow Quebeckians who have been wounded in defeat.”

Busley Crowther in The New York Times called it “a whale of a comedy” even though he couldn't tell the four musicians apart except for Ringo (“the big-nosed one”).

You two go ahead lah, I don't want to be lightbulb.