In a YouTube video a fellow said he stopped eating pomegranates when he got juice all over his white shirt while struggling to open one: "It was the needle that broke the camel's back." Almost as bad as looking for a straw in a haystack.

A tennis partner reacting to an opponent hitting six spectacular shots in a row: "Buddy, you're living on borrowed land." Now that would make sense if you had just taken out a mortgage on your farm.