"Why not ?" "If you do, you'll never get married." "I mustn't look at the new moon through a knot hole and I must beware of the flute and the snare drum," said Mr.Biggs.
"Don't be alarmed by my daughter's fancies," Kelso advised.

"They are often rather astonishing.

She has a hearty prejudice against the flute.
It is well founded.

An ill played flute is one of the worst enemies of law and order.

Goldsmith estranged half his friends with a grim determination to play the flute.