The face value of the checks ranged from $12, for a dry-cleaning bill, to $1,945, for a credit-card payment.

Lavin, who must have a grotesque dry-cleaning bill, was perspiring through his white oxford again.

Tuxedos are no guarantee of anything, except that the dry-cleaning bills will be added to the price of your meal.

"And my dry-cleaning bills have certainly gone down."

This summer, she plans to add silk cargo pants to her mix of separates, and then brace herself for the dry-cleaning bills.

Robinson will be willing to pay the dry-cleaning bill if he gets one more sweaty effort like the one Lemieux offered last night.

Among the missing records are the documents to support $33,000 that officials say was paid to cover the superintendent's dry-cleaning bills.

"Might stain your suit britches, but I promise that the view'll be worth a dry-cleaning bill."

He pays the dry-cleaning bills of passengers whose coats are ruined by pigeons.

It had not occurred to her that my parents simply could not afford the dry-cleaning bills.