Hmm... post-Schrödinger, I thought that... dead or alive... the cat was in the box...Once Oppenheimer opened Pandora's box, the cat was out of the bag.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Creative Writing Award For The Day
From commenter antiprop1 on a thread at Huffington Post debating nuclear disarmament:
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Wow now that's not so much a mixed metaphor but a mangled metaphor!
ReplyDeletejams - I thoroughly agree!
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to clarity of thought? Have misfortunes been release, or has something hidden been revealed?
ReplyDeleteIf it were changed along the lines of : 'The cat is out of the bag - Pandora's box has been opened!', it would still be clunky, but would make some sense.
Metaphors are useful for conveying concepts in a condensed form, but you have to know what the concepts are before you use them.