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… just to relieve the monopoly.

When sleeping dogs fly.

Homosexual: A man’s man.

I'm flying by the edge of my seat.

Never put all your eggs in one omelet.

Gossip: One with a keen sense of rumor.

There's a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel.

“I’m going after that red fish,” said Tom erringly.

He's got too many oars in the fire.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Men are like textbooks: you have to spend a lot of time between the covers to gain a small amount of satisfaction.

Idle hands are the mother of invention.

You can take that to the bank and smoke it.

“Your trousers have come apart!” was Tom’s unseemly comment.

“It’s a unit of electric current,” said Tom amply.

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden.

“No ellipses, parabolas or hyperbolas,” said Tom laconically.

Quartet: Four men, all of whom think that the other three can’t sing.

Bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation.

Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Chiropodist: A man who makes money hand over foot.