Don Ferguson has written on 8/16/2010 11:26 AM: > I hear that! It drives me crazy, especially to consider how it might be > affecting me!! I might be getting dumber by osmosis!! :-) > > And while I'm in a "you kids get off of my lawn" moment, add to the list the > demise of proper use of colloquial metaphors such as "tight as a drum" or > "dry as a bone". Those get butchered daily around me and I feel powerless > to stop it! The other day I overheard someone actually say, when referring > to someone who needed to do more to accomplish a given task that he should > "step up to the pump". > I think those occur because the speaker has never seen the phrase in print. Surely, you've heard the tale about the child who came home from Sunday school proclaiming that the day's lesson was about Gladly, the cross-eyed bear!! :-)
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