A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle, I said. One of these days you're going to want another bicycle, she said, laughing.

The committee's report was smothered.

Blood may seep to the back of the throat and may clot, producing an “artificial gag” of clotted blood.

And what of the falsifications, the fudgings and fabrications of observations? Hartner has found evidence that fudging was common enough, in a time when there was as yet no theory of error, no rules for the consistent use of significant figures, […]