I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.

G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.

The South Koreans have indeed accomplished an economic miracle in the past three decades but their economy is 'a candle in the wind' […]

The upper wings are opacous[…]; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.