The off-side rule in football states that no player may be closer to his opponents' goal than his last two opponents (usually a defender and the goalkeeper) and the ball at the time the ball is kicked forwards towards him.

Pebble pincushion [Chaenactis carphoclinia], a delicate annual wildflower with deeply divided leaves, has white or pinkish flowers crowded into heads. If the heads resemble pincushions, then the stamens poking out of the flowers must represent the pins.

She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst into jazz, filling the quiet grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.

All are not fit with them to stir and toil.