Mixed Grill XLV

Time to suffer.

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Honi soit qui mal y pense – I thought it was Lily

First and Zen – Spiritual sports (Fantasy football?)

My funeral – I'll be there, if I have no other engagement

Child labor – You need a little girl who is young at uterus

Maid in the shade – Under the old apple tree

Cosin – Get into bed with the enemy but watch your hypotenuse

When you and I were young Maggie – Or whatever your name is. My memory's going

Erin Go Broke – When the potato parasites arrive. (No I don't mean the tourists)

Tachs tax – Soak the rich drivers

Zero-Sum – Win-win inverted

No evil deed goes unpunished – Nor do good ones

Tight as a dram – Or twenty

Stand on the shoulders of giants --Walk on their graves is more like it

Pavlova, Reuben sandwich, Eggs Benedict – You eat what you are

Every man for himself – Every person for themself is the PC alternative

Smoke alarm – Ring tone for some

To die four – Graphic novel superheroes who'd prefer that someone else should die, and they can arrange it

Keep the house – When the kids inherit and sell it they'll have to clean the attic. I won't. A lot of the stuff there is theirs anyway

Mail carrier – He specializes in carrying femail carriers (of mail)

One at a dime – That's all you needed for a single NYC subway ride in the middle of the last century (No, not a Dewey dime which appeared in 1953)

S.O.B. – Only a mother could love him

Shoot first and ask questions afterward – NRA

The greatest good for the greatest number – Big winner with number 60

Antepenultimate – She started a lot of things but never quite finished

Affair of the hearth – Nothing like cuddling in front of the fire on a cold night

Tennessee – But you'll need a ticket to the Open

Dim sum – Botched check in Chinese restaurant

Never give a breaker an even surf – Salty crocodile tears. The rougher the better

Help – Movie cleanup crew

Smoke alarm – A ring tone is better, but it's all related to the kind of communication

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Time to exhale.