From a country retail chemist's appeal to the Local Tribunal for his son's exemption from Military Service:
"I cannot dispense with him"—or, presumably, without him.
ONCE BIT, TWICE SHY.
Sporting Lawyer. "If you'll take my advice you'll come to the bridge!"
Old Farmer. "Na fear! Six-and-eightpence for t' advice? I'd rather chance a duckin'."