How often do we hear about someone who “got away” with committing a crime or who “got off on a technicality”? This type of remark is common when discussions arise about the shortcomings of the U.S. legal system.

This media reception gave it the octopodial status so described and many Nigerians nose-dived into the market, colliding one another, as they struggle to buy the handset, as it is popularly called.

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Ha' not you seen, Camillo? / (But that's past doubt; you have, or your eye-glass / Is thicker than a cuckold's horn)