Strangers are hiding in our pantry (and bedroom and behind the drapes).
It's often recounted how, when people heard the first wax-cylinder phonographs they were so overwhelmed by the lifelike sounds emanating from the primitive machines that they began searching behind the drapes for concealed singers and instrumentalists.
I half expected to see Rod Serling lurking behind the drapes, because there was little doubt we had just spent time in the Twilight Zone.
Many midlifers are still peeking out from behind the drapes at the soldiers standing on the porch and reasoning that until they let them in, they won't have to deal with their clogged arteries, their diabetes, their pre-cancerous polyps that go undetected because they won't have colonoscopies.
Drape the working yarn, the yarn attached to your yarn ball behind your left hand and over your palm.
Georgette's father is whispering, loud enough for Mitz to hear, about his roommate, whose feet Mitz can make out in the gloom behind the metal drape that divides the room in half.
He's not just the guy behind the blue drape and the [presidential] seal.'".
The music is barely there, refusing to come out from behind the linen drapes, and Maxwell underplays every move, especially the chorus.
Yet it allowed the designer to bring a sporty attitude to the tailoring and to leave behind the soft drapes of previous seasons.
