One is elitist, a Jack Sprat of collecting, and the other is populist, the wife who eats no lean.

They were like Jack Sprat and his wife.

One also encounters the mixed marriages - the sartorial equivalents of Jack Sprat and his wife.

This is what he read: 'Remember the password - Jack Sprat.

"Jack Sprat" is an English language nursery rhyme.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat.

Or, should I inquire into the health of Jack Sprat?

Jack Sprat's Now, they're naming restaurants after nursery rhymes.

He knew that the boys at work were already making jokes about Jack Sprat and his wife, but they didn't know the half of it.

"But if Jack Sprat and his wife could lick the plate clean together, I guess we'll do all right tonight."