Compounds of たり

• 兄たり難く弟たり難し
  (exp) there is little to choose between the two
  they're both about the same
• 下手な考え休むに似たり
  (exp) take a rest rather than useless thinking
• 下手の考え休むに似たり
  (exp) (id) It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one
  Mickle fails that fools think
• 冬来たりなば春遠からじ
  (exp) If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?
• 金玉が上がったり下ったり
  (exp) being held in suspense
  being on edge
• 幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花
  (exp) if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears (lit: the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass)