The tears dried, but the sorrow lingered on, a shadow over what once was.' This one liner not only shows that the immediate emotion has passed but also that the underlying sorrow will continue to affect the character or the situation.
I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. This is a simple but humorous one liner. The unexpected reaction of the wife after being told about her eyebrows makes it funny. It's a very common situation in daily life where small remarks can lead to funny moments.
"Give him peaches, give him plums" is an idiom that means to give or help each other. According to the original text of the Book of Songs," Give me a peach and return it with a plum." It literally referred to the way one repaid others when they helped him. This idiom emphasized the principle of reciprocation and mutual benefit.