There’s plenty of sayings that mean horrible things. We still use these sayings anyway. We don’t change them just because of the negative connotation. For example: “rule of thumb” is a saying about how thick of a switch you can cut for beating your wife. Killing two birds with one stone

Edit: my mistake, there’s plenty of terrible sayings I can choose from though.

There’s plenty of sayings that mean horrible things. We still use these sayings anyway. We don’t change them just because of the negative connotation. For example: “rule of thumb” is a saying about how thick of a switch you can cut for beating your wife. Killing two birds with one stone

There’s plenty of sayings that mean horrible things. We still use these sayings anyway. We don’t change them just because of the negative connotation. For example: “rule of thumb” is a saying about how thick of a switch you can cut for beating your wife.