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Arka

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Re: Obscure Metaphors
« Reply #30 on: November 20, 2006, 09:43:31 am »
My all time literary favourite:

Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker trilogy)

"It [space ship] was deadly. Not deadly like a flying bullet, but deadly like a brick wall across a motorway." (paraphrase)

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Re: Obscure Metaphors
« Reply #31 on: November 23, 2006, 07:27:02 am »
"That hammerweilder must have been leeching my minerals when he told me about the goose that lays golden eggs." meaning pulling my leg.
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Coneitic

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Re: Obscure Metaphors
« Reply #32 on: November 23, 2006, 03:14:22 pm »
to quote beans..... Shoot for the moon, if you miss your still amongst those stars
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