Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.

Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.

Like her growing mid section, the stone was bulging in the middle. She had seen it as she walked out of Ngozi's palace. Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried. Uzo'ma had insisted on keeping the identity of the father secret and Ngozi was not having it.

He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.

I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.

Have it

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