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.
Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. - Bill Moyers
Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. - Bill Moyers
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.