It's fun to use quotes from your world as a way to transition between scenes, even if it's not related to the chapter. It's a neat little snippet of worldbuilding.
You know, I heard one that sounded similar to the squirrel idiom, except with monkeys and bananas, and I thought that referred to that in this line of text. Can't believe I got that one wrong as well. :blob_evil_two:
The cat burglar scoffed. “Stopped clocks, blind squirrels, monkeys and typewriters. Pick an idiom.”
This single line has so much English in it I can't even begin to decipher the meaning. :blob_dizzy:
Every fanfic I read in AO3 almost always seems to have been written by a top linguist, because they seem to pull out words I've never heard of the same way a magician endlessly pulls out animals from a hat