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“You can’t have two insomniacs in the same household. Who will make the oatmeal?

“I saw a movie once where something important was hidden in a piano,” I said. “I saw that one,” Mack said. “All those fools singing in French.

“Preternaturally” is a word which here means “extra.”

I got distracted by a good part of my book. Peter is just escaping from Barbados and has decided to be a buccaneer.”

It was a mess of spaghetti tossed together with some spinach, a little cheese, and a chopped-up onion burned almost to a crisp, with a perfect fried egg on top of it.

“Much obliged,” Jackie replied, which is a fancy way of saying “thank you,”

“Loudest bark this side of the Mortmain Mountains,”

“Brave is what they call you until it doesn’t work,”

“In a pinch” is a phrase which here means “in a difficult situation,”

“The closest eye doctor is way over in Paltryville, but she doesn’t have a very good reputation.”