hammer and tongs

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.

The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.