English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (GAB)

You don’t need those the’s

He vanished into the thin air (nonstandard).
He vanished into thin air (standard).

Let’s take a walk down the memory lane (nonstandard).
Let’s take a walk down memory lane (standard).

If anything goes wrong, my name will be in the mud (nonstandard).
If anything goes wrong, my name will be mud (standard).
GAB