Posted on 11/01/2015 6:03:17 AM PST by NKP_Vet
I missed the metaphor overload. Guess I’m not quite as educated as I thought I was.
In a mere two sentences the writer, carried away by self-righeousness, throws in:
wind at our backs
doors of opportunity
doors nailed shut
(by the way, aren’t doors usually locked and windows nailed shut?)
sea change
James Taranto of the WSJ has ‘Metaphor Alerts’ for this sort of excessive and/or mixed-up cliche.
Almost invariably, the hack phraseology is used by media who are paid, and therefore expected, to know better and by the aforementioned leftists whose very thinking is unoriginal.
I pray that the time for God's wrath on America will come soon. This country deserves every hurricane, every tornado, every invasion, every nuclear bomb on every city for the evils this country has supported and perpetrated on its citizens and the world. Abortion and homosexuality are just the top two.
With “republicans” like Mitt Romney and Paul Singer who in the hell needs democrats? And these type “republicans” control the GOP.
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