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From Top of the Heap, by Erle Stanley Gardner:
***He was built like a secondhand soda straw.***"You damn near upset the applecart.""Provided there is any applecart."She tapped the cash drawer. "There's three hundred dollars in there. That makes it an applecart."***[Goose Metaphor Mashup dept.]"It's all a wild-goose chase," I told her. "Let's start looking. We might even find the golden egg."***