Not since the "great big new tax on everything" line mowed down reasonable discussion about alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has a political party so gratuitously abandoned rational policy development in the interests of a sledgehammer slogan.
It's all too late now; she has gone and the era has passed, although its ill-effects are still to be seen in communities that have never recovered from her wilful sledgehammer assault upon them.
Let 2015 go down as the election that killed metaphor, one sledgehammer blow at a time.
In order to provide breathing space between the disaster set pieces, Stone is provided with a saccharine, implausible backstory full of sledgehammer symbolism.
This is how millions of women feel every month, whether it's the hormonal upheaval (there's a footbridge near me which I daren't take one day a month in case my hormones shove me off it), the sledgehammer pain in your back and belly, the bloating, or the vanished energy.
Many charities see all this as a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
In one of his recently published "black spider" letters, sent to Tony Blair in 2005, the Prince urged a delay implementing EU restrictions on herbal medicines: "I think we both agreed this was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
If any change to a $30bn-a-year 30bn-a-year 30bn-a-yearivers more taxn 40% of its benefits to the top 10% of householoopholestitutes an unconscionable "sledgehammer" to retirement savings – as the government says – it's hard to see whichthe Coalition wouldeliversraise tax revenue.
But yesterday's 200km stage from Civitanova Marche to Forli – on paper a transitional day made for the sprinters, where the general classification favourites take a breather before the second act of the race hits them like a sledgehammer – was anything but an easy day in the saddle for Richie Porte.
Inside, two modest rooms have been thrown into one – the owner smashed down the internal wall with a sledgehammer to give the company more space.
The message – that government should stay out of healthcare – is about as subtle as Miley Cyrus' recent sledgehammer licking antics.
