I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.
Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.
All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago
Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.