Thursday, July 18, 2019
Monkey see, monkey do (Thursday 13)
elephant in the living room
quiet as a mouse
dog days
bird in the hand
turkey day
eagle eye
fish out of water
dovetail joint
plumber's snake
sittin' in the catbird seat
fight like cats and dogs
horse of a different color
mine canary
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Only a bird-brained, chickenshit, horse's ass would fail to see what a cool list this is.
ReplyDeleteyou do have a way with words...subtle, concise, exact. yep. (and ty)
DeleteHow would we ever talk with metaphors and animals to compare things to? It rains cats and dogs too!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet there are people who insist that metaphors are silly, they don't 'get' them, and then hit you with one, like "mettyphors are like a duck in a henhouse, they make no sense". And you start to wonder...
Deletehailstones as big as snowballs
as big as a house, she was
dead as a doornail
i say them all haa
ReplyDeleteyep, I do too. It's fun making up new ones, too.
DeleteI like "useful as a chocolate teapot". Or one of my mom's specialties, describing someone slowly drifting through a task "marigolds in soup". Usually describing one of my sisters.
ReplyDeleteMarigolds in soup is just perfect. I can see the drifter, lollygagging away...
DeleteMy mother always used "catafterme" to describe her latest disaster...
And a friend, who loved to dance, explaining why she gave it up after she got married..."my husband is like a bear in boots on the dance floor..."
Ah the joys of metaphor and cliche'. Mine tend to be quite Appalachian. Dumber than a bag of hammers. Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut (that's pretty low!).
ReplyDeleteAlways liked those hammers, yessir. Never heard the snake's belly one, I LIKE that. Seems to cover all of it.
DeleteI think most of the really good metaphors I've learned from Foghorn Leghorn...
Poor canaries.
ReplyDeleteI know. Seems kind of sad to think about.
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