cracks' that if they were falling between the cracks they were landing on solid ground, which was surely a good thing. Did they mean 'falling into the cracks'?
Beat that for passive aggressive pedantry. It livened up a very dull meeting, I can tell you.
Sounds like they hadn't got all their ducks in a row.
i asked her if i'd interrupted something beautiful between her and said customer ..she realised she meant to say he was hanging back on paying..his invoices...saucy old bint wants it imo