One can buy as many as one likes, but not a teapot, or cup and saucer.
The most compelling metaphor about politics is that we live in a saucer-shaped world.
For those above a certain age it might be taken to mean a fungus which grows on a saucer in a laboratory.
That is to be added to the tax on the breakfast cup and saucer and the cutlery.
They have to pay more for everything they buy—cups, saucers, cutlery, and so on.
It is shaped like a fat flying saucer.
Is the balance of payments running riot simply because the housewives have been buying too many brushes, too many brooms, too many cups and saucers?
My wife tells me that to uncurl a curled hedgehog it is necessary to offer it a saucer of hot milk.
