I'd flay him myself, but I like him too much.' 'I've no scruples.

He had the audacity to try to cut me out with a woman at Cairo once.

I forgot that, but I remember now.' 'Did he cut you out ?' 'You'll see when I have dealt with him.

But, after all, what's the good?
Leave him alone and he'll come home, if he has any stuff in him, dragging or wagging his tail behind him.

There's more in a week of life than in a lively weekly.