Quote of the week

Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself'

George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Some mixed metaphors

I heard a wonderful mixed metaphor on the Today Programme today.

The sports presenter said that a comment 'hit the needle on the head' which means I suppose that we will all now have to go and look for a nail in a haystack.

A very nice person that I worked with many years ago was the master of the mixed metaphor.  He was forever biting the nettle and grasping the bullet!

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