Post Modern romance.

 Public displays of explicit emojis...

Is discouraged in the workplace.

Grocer's Hyphen.

 You get what you pay for.

Cannot ask for more than that.

Wakey wakey.

 Maybe yes, maybe no.

Define "woke."

Learn the hard way.

 That should teach her.

Some things just aren't done.

A taxing situation.

 It might even be legal.

It's a crime the way he hates taxes.

Eye spy.

 Minimum job requirement.

All-knowing, all-seeing, no fooling.

To infinity and beyond.

 You can always add another zero.

But who's counting?

Guess who's coming for dinner?

 He always intended to have him for dinner.

Now he can.

Buck stopping.

 Some of the bucks still stop with him.

His conscience is cleanly bought.

Sound of one hand clapping.

 As power corrupts, there goes the neighborhood...

Up in smoke.

In the words of Jimmy Walker.

 There is always an alternative.

Is there a downside?

Straight to the source.

 He cut out the middle man.

Show me the money !

Plastic Man.

 Can be used as siding in a pinch.

Cheaper and burps like Tupperware.

Picture this.

 Pictograms, one of the earliest forms of writing.

He provides the color commentary.

Hardly working.

 Collateral damage, aka Wally.

Not that he actually ever worked.

Shamrocks to all.

 He got his Irish up.

Someone kissed the Blarney Stone.

A difference of opinion.

 The intentional fallacy demonstrated.

Easy to understand: She likes trebuchets.

Prohibition redux.

 Alice doesn't live here anymore.

The Man in the Iron Mask, on the rocks.

Burning for learning.

 Making a comeback, bard singing.

Living audio books.

Sugar-coated.

 Kids say the darndest things.

Smarter than the average adult.

Gnothi seauton.

Sometimes he is up, and sometimes...

He is down.

Open secret.

 Lots of foul fore play prevented.

His favorite club, the shoe.

Fore !

 And that is just one round.

Otherwise would be a hazardous waste.

Games people play.

 He said with a straight face, ace high.

She is looking a bit flush.

Hey, Abbott !

 Just who really is on first, anyway?

What's on second?

To state the obvious.

 He is claiming to be a beach in Spain?

No resemblance to either Faye Dunaway or Warren Beatty.

Baa Baa Black Sheep.

 It can happen even in the best of families.

Something smells off.

March comes in lying.

 She would have better luck taking it up with The Almanac.

Of the local astronomer.

In case of emergency.

 Reading matter in the bathroom adjacent.

Trickle down theory.

Tit for tat.

The cat gets an extra life.

Don't let the ladder walk under you.

Voltage leaks.

 He is AC/DC.

Plug-in turn on.