@1stBaronetDSO @Lactrollsintol @ONIP1966 @Kelmba @NickDMathison @Tesco @JamieBrysonCPNI @BeattieDoug Well, first off, it isn't literal, it's an idiom.

Secondly, it isn't humour or banter and I never said it was.

Thirdly, I'm not the Justice Minister.

Fourthly, "but she said" hasn'd been a defence since playschool.

And fifthly. I didn't defend its use.

So. There's that.

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