“By the bones of Prosodius, I expected a lie, but not such a thumper as that.”

“With your tire thumper, you did a tire check once every two hours or hundred miles, whichever came sooner.”

“In the mid-seventies he became a tub thumper for Andropov.”

“How can he claim damages when he has not only left the stable door open but has sent out the horse with a hefty good-luck thump on its backside?”

“There was a tiny thump and perhaps what sounded like papers whishing around.”