Pairs in Rhyme

[icauser44]

Each pair of words is a rhyme for a familiar phrase. Can you solve them?

Example: "Car and Ride" Answer: "Far and Wide"...

[N. Y. Sonnet]

Here's a short riddle I came up with--easy, I know, but I wasn't trying very hard.

I’m often hard to break
When what I hide eludes...

[2_B_||_!_2_B]

32 December
by D.L. Robinson

There was once
a mysterious
genius
from Surrey
who, in a flurry
ploughed through stories

...

[Electron.John]

I am a vessel and a stone,
When I am hot my temper is known,
I have my own money as well as a bank,
If I take a bath the devil you can...

[Electron.John]

Sally was chatting on an internet with a man that went by the name "RocketMan". He claimed to have been an astronaut for NASA in the early 1970's...

[Electron.John]

Here is a long one, but fun one, I remember from college.

A very long time age, three weary travelers came upon a rather rundown looking...

[Electron.John]

You may envy me,
When you want to snoop.
But the waiter gets hostility,
If you find me in your soup.

What am I?