Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my house.
...Ivy’s COOK THE STEAK, DON’T STAKE THE COOK apron...
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.
One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.