Perhaps as an aside we should also include overworked phrases and examples?
Was watching a science programme about the moon and lo and behold one of the clever presenters revealed that the moon is moving further and further from the Earth, at what rate I hear those of you that might just give a damn asking?
Well hold on to your hats, it's moving away at:-
'The rate our finger nails grow'.
The number of things in nature move, retract, grow, spread apart and erode at this rate proves to me there must be a God but he is lazy, whenever one of his helpers said 'what speed shall we give such and such?' his laid back reply was always, 'well, roughly I'd say, the speed your finger nails grow'.
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