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Worry: Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

“We must hurry,” said Tom Swiftly.

The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on.

Clearly we’ve opened a Pandora’s box of worms here.

She’s a tall drink of water.

“It’s my personal magnetism,” said Tom ironically.

Business Lunch: Lunch.

We can still hang our heads high.

Umbrella: A movable roof.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Yogurt: Semi-solid dairy product made from partially evaporated and fermented milk. Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste exactly the same as they sound. The other two being goulash and squid.

Admiral: A general at sea.

The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

It’s all water under the hatchet.

We should go metric every inch of the way.

“I have a split personality,” said Tom, being frank.

I understand that Congress has taken the first step in the fight against air pollution: limiting the speeches to five minutes.