Sentences with phrase «over stretched metaphors»

And in hearing these pundits and newscasters and their lame, over stretched metaphors you would swear that the cliff must've been what the Mayans were talking about — they just missed it by a week and a half.

And in hearing these pundits and newscasters and their lame, over stretched metaphors you would swear that the cliff must've been what the Mayans were talking about — they just missed it by a week and -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

In this new role as a partner rather than a traditional publisher, however, I became more engaged with the lives of the businesses and organisations I've worked with, and over the course of the last year came a quiet revelation: to stretch the astronomical metaphor to its limits, the book is not a lone star but the centre of a solar system.

To stretch my metaphor to the breaking point, someone might come in and paint over the wallpaper.