He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away.

If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.

Expect poison from the standing water.

You've got to pick your poison.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!