He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. Swift.
He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. Tennyson.
He has a bee in his bonnet, i.e., is hare-brained. Sc. Pr.
He has a head, and so has a pin. Port. 40 Pr.
He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons. Hen. V., iii. 2.
He has faut (need) o' a wife wha marries mam's pet. Sc. Pr.
He has hard work who has nothing to do. Pr.
He has no religion who has no humanity. Arab. Pr.
He has not learned the lesson of life who 45 does not every day surmount a fear. Emerson.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. Ben. Franklin.