One uses such a phrase to describe fussy people, alive with foolish activity.
Your worst enemy would not place you in such a category." "My worst enemy made the phrase effective at any rate, Miss Deane." "You mean that he ruined your career ?" "Well--er--yes.

I suppose that describes the position with fair accuracy." "Was he a very great scoundrel ?" "He was, and is." Jenks spoke with quiet bitterness.

The girl's words had evoked a sudden flood of recollection.

For the moment he did not notice how he had been trapped into speaking of himself, nor did he see the quiet content on Iris's face when she elicited the information that his chief foe was a man.

A certain tremulous hesitancy in her manner when she next spoke might have warned him, but his hungry soul caught only the warm sympathy of her words, which fell like rain on parched soil.
"You are tired," she said.