If you insist on using cheesy axioms and metaphors, culled from the last lines of ‘I’m ok, you’re ok’ type of books, please use them correctly.

Some of my favourites are:

One foul swoop

The proof is in the pudding

It was my last straw

A heart as big as gold

Beyond the question of a doubt

Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

Dirty laundry is coming home to roost

Fewer and fewer in between

She took to it like a fish out of water

Etcetera.