There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring yuh name.

We dodged a bullet. But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

We dodged a bullet, ... But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

They want the brick streets, ... I think we just have to bite the bullet and pay for it.

The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.

There are always loose ends in real life.