Indeed, on Dick Clark's madly popular teen-age TV show the various acts never sing at all, but merely mouth the words to their own taped recordings.

The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands.

I'm starving, but that rotting meat is unstomachable.

I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.