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What is the worst metaphor you’ve ever seen used?
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:29 pm
I once heard someone refer to University of Arkansas as a flagship.
I’ve never really understood the phrase kicked the tires.
Oh and sorry but life really isn’t like a box of chocolates now is it?
I’ve never really understood the phrase kicked the tires.
Oh and sorry but life really isn’t like a box of chocolates now is it?
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Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:30 pm to rebeloke
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:31 pm to rebeloke
I once heard rebleoke was bright as a star.
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:32 pm to rebeloke
He wuz a good boy
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:34 pm to rebeloke
“Life is like a box of chocolates” is a simile, not a metaphor.
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:36 pm to rebeloke
Rebloke needs to stop posting stupid threads...
I'm doing this wrong again
I'm doing this wrong again
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:38 pm to the paradigm
And kick the tires is an idiom
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:39 pm to rebeloke
Years ago I worked with a guy from central america who was the king of mixed metaphors and botched figures of speech. He’d talk about “throwing a monkey in the wrench” and such. Also loved to use the term “per se” in meetings, never correctly.
Posted on 1/20/18 at 6:41 pm to rebeloke
Cam Newton used the Titanic as a metaphor for his team to keep going on.
Posted on 1/20/18 at 7:05 pm to jembeurt
Totally believable
Posted on 1/20/18 at 7:27 pm to rebeloke
blind as a bat out of hell best/worst mixed metaphor I ever heard
Posted on 1/20/18 at 7:43 pm to rebeloke
He dindu nuffin. He wuz a kang n' shite.
This post was edited on 1/20/18 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 1/20/18 at 7:44 pm to rebeloke
"If you can't stand the heat, does a bear shite in the woods?"
Posted on 1/20/18 at 8:25 pm to rebeloke
My lil Italian MIL used to say that a rough/clumsy person was "like a bowl in a china shop". I thought about explaining it to her but it was funnier when she said it that way when fussing at the kids while roughhousing.
Posted on 1/20/18 at 8:36 pm to rebeloke
I don't think kicking the tires is a metaphor, per se, but I use it all the time.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 11:31 am to AlonsoWDC
Unless you are literally kicking the tires, then you are speaking metaphorically.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 11:32 am to beerJeep
quote:thats a simile
once heard rebleoke was bright as a star.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 11:34 am to rebeloke
Slick as owl shite
Posted on 1/21/18 at 11:36 am to AlonsoWDC
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metaphor, per se
See, this is so close to the correct use of “per se” that it would be trivial to say anything about it, but my former Honduran co-worker used it like a teen girl uses the word “like”. And in an office environment eveybody just lets shite like that go. Pretty sure there was another guy who kept count of how many times he used “per se” per meeting.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 11:37 am to rebeloke
You’re as ugly as a....very ugly person.
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