“That review went down like a cup of cold sick,” said one senior management insider.

i suspect that would go down like a cup of cold sick

Their first victim could be Bronwyn (Lisa Chappell) whose sickly sweet personality goes down like a cup of cold sick.

This will probably go down like a cup of cold sick with Barclays investors — an acquisition of a Spanish caja accompanied by a £4bn-£5bn rights issue.

When civil terms of address were reestablished, two or three hours later, it was suggested to Simon that they were less likely to go down like a cup of cold sick if they stuck mainly to songs people knew, maybe sneaking one original track into the set if they weren't getting too many missiles thrown at them.