Career coach Katie Kelley on Facebook: "Supper sizing my chardonnay and contemplating what to give up for Lent." She pours 8 ounces for lunch, 12 ounces for supper.

When Bob Gordon did not hear what his wife was trying to telling him, he replied, "Sorry, Dear, I was in a reveille." He was not lost in a reverie; he was just waiting for his wake-up call to conclude.

In a query seeking literary representation, an aspiring novelist wrote, "My book is a stream of conscience." Like Crime and Punishment, we assume.

The mob boss on the television show Gotham: "A  bird in the hand is nine-tenths of the law."