The mob boss was known for executing his enemies with a garrotte of piano wire.

You're a dizzard! I retorted. And a noodle and a jolt-head;[…]you're a Hatter! I shrieked the last epithet.

With an enormous silver cross swinging from a chain around her neck, she has cast herself as the ultimate sleb martyr, sacrificing what remains of her dignity and reputation so that others may enjoy theirs.

with such weak nerves and spirits, and in the condition I am in at present, ’twould be as much as my life was worth, to deject and contrist myself with so bad and melancholy an account