The poem thematizes more than it enacts entropology, a contemplation of materials in process over time.

He is more likely to succeed because he tries harder.

As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed.

I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.