Hill of Beans?

My entry about sickness included a phrase, "hill of beans". I did not think it was used all that often, but then I checked a friend's blog, as I do almost every day, and someone had in their comment, the phrase, "hill of beans". It was only a day before I had used the phrase so brilliantly. I thought I was being clever, and corny @ the same time. But someone else had beat me to it. "Hill of beans" in everyday usage? An alarming trend about to explode throughout the world? Let's wait and see.