[Jill Malcolm]

• Here are just a few over-used idioms.These are best used sparingly in your writing or, better still, not at all.

• heave a sigh of relief

• add insult to injury

• take it or leave it

• warm the cockles of your heart

• none the worse for wear

• a taste of his own medicine

• at the drop of a hat

Can you think of some others?

[Judy Finlay]

sweet as apple pie                                                  on the smell of an oily rag

mad as  a hatter                                                      a stitch in time saves nine

in with a penny, in with a pound                           lady of the night