MR. IDIOM'S "IDIOM CORNER" #3
Here is Mr. Idiom's slim Spring selection... 4-3: Samurai are people who conspicuously use a toothpick even when they do not have something to eat, which is a Japanese poem counterpart of, "Better to go to bed supper-less than to rise in debt." 4.17: Calf love, half love; old love, cold love. Work now, play later. Soon gotten, soon spent. 4.24: Wrangle for an ass's shadow. 6.5: Sweet are the uses of adversity. 6.19: All good things must come to an end. Speech is silver, silence is golden. 6.26: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. 7.1: Little and often fills the purse.