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 4 months ago
ROFL
pschearer Premium Member 4 months ago
I never metaphor I didn’t like.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 4 months ago
Headline about the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in The Onion: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-berg”.
pschearer Premium Member 4 months ago
Advice to writers: Avoid cliches like the plague.
Egrayjames 4 months ago
Does a metaphor become a cliche’ when pigs fly?
Hickory 4 months ago
What about colloquialisms?
uniquename 4 months ago
That’s what happens in a one horse town.
edrorie723 4 months ago
A metaphor becomes a cliché the second time it is used.
Sir Isaac 4 months 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 4 months ago
When Hell thaws out, after freezing over. Therefore an even longer interval of time.
gopher gofer 4 months ago
strips like this are as rare as rocking horse sh… droppings… ☺