Confident that she can take care of herself in any circumstances, at any age after her twenty-first year, she will travel alone all over the world and bachelorise in risky neighbourhoods of London and Paris without the least intentional bravado, merely because she is unsuspicious, fearless and interested in everything.

To show he doesn’t do his fair share of work, I’ve set him an elephant trap. If he falls in he’ll look like a clown.

to sink the national debt

Flat and pedally, then steep and fast, then catch-a-pedal-rocky, it's great fun, if a little short.