Sentences with phrase «frog in a pot of water»

Retailers have, to a great extent been like the allegorical frog in a pot of water that slowly comes to a boil without it realizing it.

We are just like the frog in a pot of water that is slowly warming.

But, like the frog in a pot of water analogy, the masses will someday wake up and ask «What the hell happened to all the scenery?»

The danger for large law firms sounds like the frog in the pot of water metaphor (and yes, I know this metaphor is wrong).

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We have been marinating in corruption until we can hardly detect its growth, like Malcolm Muggeridge's frog killed in a pot of gradually heated water.

At first blush, I had him pegged as a modern, updated Edie Sedgwick, New York City's mascot frog preening and posing for a selfie while being publicly boiled to death in our pot of water.

Aarn Farmer: Yep, and it was — it was like, you know — it's a vicious cycle that you don't realize that you're in because, you know, just like the frog that's in the pot of boiling water that heated that degree and the pot just — you know, the fog just stays in there until it boils to death.

With all the hidden taxes We the people are being treated as the frog in a pot of cold water and they are turning up the heat.

We tend to not react in the frog in the boiling pot of water scenario.

This is reminiscent of the old story of the frog in the pot of boiling water [iii].

The story is that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will jump out.