"...a man without a heartbeat..." I wonder now would God smite me horribly if I said "From gnu's mouth to God's ear"??

My grandad was 1 of 10 children of a sharecropper in Texas. My grandma 1 of 6. Got kinfolks "up the wahZOO". The main blindingly obvious truth in our family is "Einstein was right: all things are relative & the Faulks got more relative than others." Tw