«Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 7

Гаррис добавил, что тем не менее предложение относительно реки «попадает в точку». Я не совсем понимаю, почему «в точку» (разве только речь идет о том, чтобы отдать в точку несколько тупые остроты Гарриса), но, видимо, это выражение имеет одобрительный смысл.

how bad we were – bad from a medical point of view, of course. We were all feeling bad, and we were quite nervous about it. Harris said he had such a very bad headache that he hardly knew what he was doing. And then George

It is a most extraordinary thing, but when I read a medicine advertisement I usually come to the conclusion that I am suffering from the disease that was described. One day I went to the British Museum to read about hay fever 1, I fancy I had it 2. I took the book, and read all I needed; and then I idly turned the leaves, and began to study diseases, generally. Immediately I understood that I had some fearful, devastating illness. I sat for a while, frozen with horror; and then, in despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever 3 – read the symptoms – discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it – wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance 4 – found, as I expected, that I had that too, – and so started alphabetically. I had every malady they wrote about! The only malady I had not got was housemaid’s knee 5

Равным образом ни мясо, ни земляника со сливками не были в восторге – наоборот, им явно не хотелось оставаться там, куда они попали.