English Idioms from English Musicals 3 - Jeeves

BERTIE
         For when a Wooster's mask of pleasure
         becomes a steely stare,
         you'll know he's there.
         He'll never turn a hair.

BINGO
         Hey, this is more like it…!

HONORIA
         That was surely us back there.
         It's as clear as day.
         If we'd both kept faith back there,
         hadn't lost our way…

BERTIE
         For I know to my cost
         it's p­redicted
         self-inflicted.
         People in mazes do tend to get lost.

BERTIE
         I know you're somebody something…
         It's on the tip of my tongue.
         You're either Edith Sitwell or the Bow Street Beak.
         I'll know who you are, the moment you speak…

BERTIE
         What could be nicer, meeting like this?
         I confess I've forgotten
         who on earth you can be.
         It could be you're Nijinsky or the man next door…

BERTIE
         Good Lord alive!

BERTIE
         My sainted aunt!
         What could be better, meeting like this?
         Though I have not an inkling,
         not a clue who you are!

BERTIE
         There's a painfully simple solution.
         It's as plain as the nose on your face.

BERTIE (to Madeline)
         So close your eyes and lend an ear
         for I suspect he's somewhere near
         and that it's you that he has come to find.

MADELINE
         I know this night can't be in vain.
         The stars shine in God's daisy chain.

HONORIA
         Lend a hand!
         Bar the door!
         And we've trapped him for sure!