for coming all this way from the city to talk to me about it.
从城里大老远赶来和我谈这件事。
An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue.
牛因有脚而被抓,人因有舌而遭殃。
Almost any day a young porpoise may be seen trying to turn a 300-pound sea turtle over by sticking his snout under the edge of his shell and pushing up for dear life.