She could prick the pomposity of the powerful with the same ease with which she could communicate with the mass of ordinary folk.

I think we could do that with ease,

the sensational piercing pain in our heart is nothing, compare from a prick of agony to what others experience.

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.

You can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick!

I paint with my prick