The upshot is that we have to keep expenses cut close as a jailbird's hair.
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People ridicule him and laugh at thejailbirdminister, as they call him.
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His work is notable for its syncopated rhythms, surreal imagery, and a quality of alienation stemming from his own life as a drifter and ajailbird.
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Eventually the two jailbirds become lovebirds.
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