She continued: “But now I make trifle with any leftover cake or croissants or raisin bread, any spread from chocolate to jam to lemon curd or marmalade, lots of any booze — I tend to use up those half-bottles strange liqueurs one accumulates in the back of the drinks cupboard — custard from a box — not a tin, that’s disgusting! — and whipped cream.”

Adult tyrannosaurs, she adds, probably wouldn’t trifle with such small creatures because they didn’t provide many calories.

“We can hope that the sanctions will underscore for the County, Attorney Carroll, and other observers that they trifle with judicial orders and time-honored rules and norms in litigation at their peril,” Wecht wrote.

When you tried to stay very quiet when Tattoo cried: “The plane! The plane!” hoping your parents would forget you were there — just us adults, watching our adult shows, too immersed in story to trifle with childish concerns like “bedtime.”

“He is certainly not a governor you want to trifle with.”