ROFL
I never metaphor I didn’t like.
Headline about the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in The Onion: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-berg”.
Advice to writers: Avoid cliches like the plague.
Does a metaphor become a cliche’ when pigs fly?
What about colloquialisms?
That’s what happens in a one horse town.
A metaphor becomes a cliché the second time it is used.
“a metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two things by stating one thing is another, while a cliché is an overused expression that has lost its originality due to repetition”….so there!
When Hell thaws out, after freezing over. Therefore an even longer interval of time.
strips like this are as rare as rocking horse sh… droppings… ☺
Yakety Sax 6 days ago
ROFL
pschearer Premium Member 6 days ago
I never metaphor I didn’t like.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 6 days ago
Headline about the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in The Onion: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-berg”.
pschearer Premium Member 6 days ago
Advice to writers: Avoid cliches like the plague.
Egrayjames 5 days ago
Does a metaphor become a cliche’ when pigs fly?
Hickory 5 days ago
What about colloquialisms?
uniquename 5 days ago
That’s what happens in a one horse town.
edrorie723 5 days ago
A metaphor becomes a cliché the second time it is used.
Sir Isaac 5 days ago
“a metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two things by stating one thing is another, while a cliché is an overused expression that has lost its originality due to repetition”….so there!
ChazNCenTex 5 days ago
When Hell thaws out, after freezing over. Therefore an even longer interval of time.
gopher gofer 5 days ago
strips like this are as rare as rocking horse sh… droppings… ☺