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Louis Saffan

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

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feel one's oats

[feel one's oats] {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To feel frisky or playful; be eager and excited. * /The horses were feeling their oats./ * /When they first got to camp, […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

flog a dead horse

[flog a dead horse] {v.} 1. To continue talking about a long forgotten topic. 2. To attempt to find a solution to a problem which is unsolveable. British slang (Wikipedia)

oats

[oats] See: [FEEL ONE'S OATS], [SOW ONE'S WILD OATS]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

sow one's wild oats

[sow one's wild oats] {v. phr.} To do bad or foolish things, especially while you are young. * /Mr. Jones sowed his wild oats while he was in college, but […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), Irish playwright There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

put to sea

[put to sea] {v. phr.} To start a voyage. * /The captain said the ship would put to sea at six in the morning./ * /In the […]

sewed up

[sewed up] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Won or arranged as you wish; decided. * /They thought they had the game sewed up, but the […]

Mark Twain

(1835-1910) Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

heart is in the right place

[heart is in the right place] or [have one's heart in the right place] To be kind-hearted, sympathetic or well-meaning; have […]

how come

[how come] {informal} also {nonstandard} [how's come] {interrog.} How does it happen that? Why? * /How come you are late?/ […]