Now, if you don't mind, the afternoon grows late, and the sun, as the ancients so quaintly put it, is setting.

But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it.

This is, as the planetary scientists quaintly put it, the cleanup problem.

"I have killed two men who tried to, as you so quaintly put it, mix."

"And you think I could do this by 'leaving them, back,' as you so quaintly put it?"

So it is only another instance of his remembering, as he once quaintly put it, "the thing that didn't happen."

"Let's take the last first; was she necessarily the woman he wanted to 'sleep' with as you so quaintly put it?"

And the sort of Americans he is in with, as you so quaintly put it, are accountants.

One is that I can't, as you so quaintly put it, pop the cork from inside.

We don't know if he can be, as you so quaintly put it, trusted.