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Bromides seldom listen to one another; they are content with talk for talk's sake, and so escape all chance of education. It is this fact, most likely, which has endowed the bromidiom with immortality. Never heard, it seems always new, appropriate, clever. No, it Isn't so much the things they say, as the way they say them!
"So I've always 'eard, sir." "Then you may go; you've earned the other dollar." Obsequiousness stared: "M'y I ask, 'ow so?" "By standing for that antediluvian bromidiom. I had to get it off my chest to somebody, or else blow up. Far better to hire an audience when you can't be original. Remember that; you've been paid: you daren't object." "Thankyousir," said the lackey blankly.
To the Sulphite, however, Sulphitism is a thing to be watched for, cultivated, and treasured. He will search long for the needle in the haystack, and leave the bromidiom to be observed by the careless, thoughtless Bromide.
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