Since the level of propriety here has been set at naught (Jane Austen quote) here is an old line from a Kurt Vonnegut novel:
The bomb went off in the building next door and scared him half out of his secretary.
56 posted on 10/26/2018 3:23:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger
('"End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)