Rachael Bradford writes:
This is used enough to make the list: Even some who respond here overuse the phrase “roll over in his/her grave“.
What dead person was important enough to be disturbed by what some random person is doing now to wake up and “roll over in his grave”
Really? When will this happen? I have got to see this one!
(Editor’s note: too many writers think they’re clever saying “that rumbling you hear is the sound of xxx rolling over…”)
Never in my entire life have I seen anyone use the phrase “roll over in his/her grave”