Waiter, Please Take This Bowl of Soup Back to the Kitchen
In addition to menacing our health, cockroaches are smelly, filthy, and 
ugly. Upon entering a cellar which is redolent with their aroma, you are
not likely to forget their odor. When you spy the foul culprits creating
a havoc in you sugar jaw or in repose atop your chocolate cake, your
disposition may be exacerbated. Roaches are omnivorous and will feast on
such disparate items as wallpaper, upholstery, nylon, stocking and beer.
No one can accuse the hungry and thirsty bugs of being abstemious.


a lick and a promise--The meticulous housewife was in so much of a hurry
that she could only give the apartment a lick and a promise.
(to do something in a hasty and superficial manner.)