I was making a cake but when I added too much sugar, it became the balls-up of my cooking career.

When accepted, it was interpreted not as causation but as contemporality. But contemporality of events is equivalent to companionship: two events which occur in the same time period without influencing or controlling one another can metaphorically be called temporal companions. In cases in which contemporality was difficult to imagine, the informants rejected the combination.

A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.

Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.