[MarkS]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

Actually that's a bad example as that idiom has existed since 1490. That's longer than the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping..._into_the_fire

Excellent example, the point being that no one who speaks normally uses that phrase in 2013. Yes, that like most phrases are old, but when it comes to being used in standard language and dare I say songs, it hasn't been done in a mainstream song since Frying Pan. It dates the bloody material.