I know, there are many but some just twang a nerve.. I swear that in an early Cagney film, (1937ish?) his Maw said "My boy's a lotta things but he ain't no killer!" That phrase, in one of it's many forms, popped up tonight in a film I was about to turn off but which got me to wondering whether we notice these things anymore? " Don't (you dare) die on me!" Phrases that writers get paid for.. But it's awfully lazy, no?