A man will grin through a terrible beating, but will wince when a woman applies ointment to his wounds.
All grocery bags contain one loaf of French bread and a stalk of celery.
When anything is going to go wrong with an airplane, it is heralded by a sputtering engine. Soldiers who show pictures of their kids will die. Nobody looks at the denomination of a bill when paying for a taxi. The best cop on the force is always suspended, then given 48 hours to finish the job.