“Our saying of the week: ‘What doesn’t kill you…’ “‘May try again later’”.

The cow and sheep in the comic strip “The Barn” by Ralph Hagen Feb. 16, 2020 (https://www.gocomics.com/thebarn/2020/02/16)

“sailors pressed into the service… whose skills and fidelity were equally suspicious.”

Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“He knows he’s got Daly and Woosnam breathing down his neck in more ways than one.”

Announcer on TSN Feb. 4 1996 (specifically re Paul McGinley, in the Heineken Classic but the point is the lovely mangled metaphor)

“I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment.”

Another double-edged letter of recommendation phrase found in multiple places online.

“He could not care less about the number of hours he had to put in.”

Another of the "He's an extraordinary man" style phrases to use in a two-edged letter of recommendation, this one for a lazy or unambitious person; it is on various websites but I do not know where it originated.

“What’s the point of being a hedonist if you’re not having a good time?”

Lily Tomlin’s "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" show, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991

“the fastest execution since someone said, ‘This Guy Fawkes bloke, do we let him off, or what?’”

Edmund Blackadder in Black Adder Goes Forth, quoted in blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-3-major-star-full-script

“A ceñoso is something too low to kick and too wet to step on.”

A character on the TV show Hunter March 21, 1991.