This move was received with a contemptuous snort from Zan Zoo. Ach, you turnip-head! You think I am afraid of you?

(historical)

tis as Broad as ' tis long , whether they Rise to others , or bring others down to them

And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver