China cymbals are a type of short sound cymbal. [Brand X] makes chinas with really short sounds.

People, the darkside already knows who we are, so it's not like we're blowing our cover, they just can't pinpoint us at any given time.

Even at Adam Smith's death Glasgow was a city of less than 50,000, less, that is, than the Kirkcaldy of 1951. … The pattern of the old city was simple; let us follow it out. … Across the ravine is the necropolis, a mountain of gravestones, with a monument of [John] Knox in the centre.

When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder.