#figure of speech

[the-mercs-as]

Week Eighty-four, The Mercs As ...

FIGURES OF SPEECH

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(Note: since there are so many figures of speech out there, Admin decided to keep it body part-themed. Enjoy)

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #the mercs as #figure of speech

[pratchettquotes]

Bill Door sighed. IT MAY NEVER BE SHARP ENOUGH.

"Come on, man, no sense in giving in," said Miss Flitworth. "Where there's life, eh?"

WHERE THERE'S LIFE EH WHAT?

"There's hope?"

IS THERE?

"Right enough."

Bill Door ran a bony finger along the edge.

HOPE?

"Got anything else to try?"

Bill shook his head. He'd tried a number of emotions, but this was a new one.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#DEATH #bill door #miss flitworth #reaperman #discworld #terry pratchett #scythe #metalwork #hope #giving up #figure of speech #rhetorical question #life #meaning of life #emotions #where there's life #right enough

[ahedderick]

You had a post a while back about figures of speech (can’t find it now, of course) and I forgot one of my favorites: 5 pounds of *x* in a 10 pound sack. My imagination always has fun with it.

I've always liked that one, too! "Buddy, you are ten pounds of trouble in a five pound sack" really gets the point across! Another "sack" saying I heard my father use was "like two bobcats in a croker sack" which was indicative of a) two folks not getting along at all or b) too much activity in too small a space. A 'croker sack' being burlap or other heavy fabric.

#appalachia #folk sayings #figure of speech

[katchwreck]

Gaps of luck,

or hatches on doors that break

you into hiatus,

awry from rest assured.

O' sour surety,

for when we wake,

it will all be in bliss.

#poetry #Hope and despair #Hidden meanings #Scriptural prose #figure of speech #Translative conceptualization

[hearse-full-of-rats]

Things I hate that mental health professionals should stop using:

Metaphors

Fluorescent lighting

Shitty DBT skill packets

#dbt #dbt skills #flourescent #fluorescent lights #fluorescent lighting #metaphor #metaphors #therapy #mental health #hospitals #psych ward #figure of speech #wise mind #is bullshit

[tenth-sentence]

"Easily in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot."

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #the horse and his boy #c s lewis #sallowpad #raven #figure of speech #lobster

[thatperfectgirl]

Emotional dependence

Imagine that you are a little summer flower. We take care of you, we water you every day. You are happy like that. One day the gardener who watered you as you pleased went away on a trip. Another gardener takes care of you in turn, but he waters you too much, so much that you end up withering away. This story is not about flowers.

#my writing #citation #quote #emotional dependency #flowers #summer #figure of speech #metaphor #maturity #women #glow up #mental health #positivity #self care

[taiwantalk]

There’s a song and its artist that are getting a lot of hype and strong reactions in China right now for the past few weeks and starting to spill over abroad.

I just want to ridicule the matter and videos like above. So pathetic. 1.4bil people in China and god knows how many worldwide, guess what they’re so impressed by the song about?

She praised in the video how awesome this song & artist because the song is so perfectly passively written as satire that no one in China could clearly criticize it and no govt officials dare to censor it.

Smh. These people who are praising the song and artist are the very same people that the song and the artist are mocking about. That they’re so full of themselves that they don’t even know that they’re praising the fact that they don’t have the right to freely express themselves except to borrow the techniques of past and ancient time to criticize everything figuratively.

1.4bil dumb asses hyping the art of being safe by mocking social injustices in purely non-direct satire.

What’s more is the artist and the song are merely uncensored or not imprisoned because, it’s entirely passive. Fucking being a chicken shit is artistic. Wonderful. If you really believe he’s untouchable then you’re mistaken. Jokes on Chinese people ignoring how ever many political dissidents are imprisoned and they dare not rise up and fight for free speech. Lol hilarious.

I’ll be impressed if anyone in china dare to speak exactly what they think of their govt, their culture, their failures, and how sad they only dare to praise the song & the artist but not to speak their minds.

#China #figure of speech #satire #chicken shit #passive satire #taiwantalk #Youtube

[bpbpskpskp]

turning bitter grapes into cold wine is actually a great analogy, but don’t trust me because i’ve never drank wine before and maybe warm wine is better. still, someone bitter goes hand in hand with being cold so using it to describe a person would be kinda cool. the extra grape part is better, because i do not like bitter grapes. a lot ov people like wine.

starting off bitter and unwanted, aging and becoming colder and closed off and mysterious and everyone knows how much mystery contributes to interest

#im sorry all i can think of is shen jiu and warm wine being shen yuan #theyre both wine bc theyre both shen qingqiu #writing #analogy #idiom? #phrases #figure of speech #svsss shen qingqiu #svsss #shen jiu #shen yuan #shen qingqiu #minor angst #if you squint

[gottahaveguts]

that webcomic chapter had me on the edge of my seat

#well I'm not sitting down but #figure of speech #opm

[cottonfluffswirl]

It's just that the lyric change from "some things" to "a few trees" really highlights the shift in tone overall that I imagine comes from a criticism of corporations being made by a corporation that was not being willing to take that step to show confrontation of the consequences of your actions and knowing destruction on the screen and instead opting for showing plausible deniability, not to mention the major vs minor key thing and the actual way the songs are structured and their tone and all I'm saying is that I think with near certainty that Biggering is indicative of what the filmmakers wanted to make and How Bad Can I Be is the watered-down version of it that's the 'safer bet' to release and The Lorax (2012) could have been SO much better.

#I know the behind the scenes. I know why you made the once-ler just some guy. #and then there was ted's whole material possessions thing #I would kill to know the whole production timeline and the versions of the film that didn’t make the cut #figure of speech #here I go‚ talking about the lorax again. #. . . hey you ever think about how you have to PAY to hear the story? 15 cents‚ nail‚ shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail? #profits. #hey how's everyone else's friday going lol

[pratchettquotes]

Holiday Theme: Happy Hogswatch

"Will you lot shut up? No one is giving anything to the troops!"

"Oh, shouldn't they have something? It's Hogswatch, after all."

"Look, it was just a figure of speech, all right? I just meant I was fully in agreement. It's just colorful language. Good grief, surely you can't think I'm actually suggesting giving stuff to the troops, at Hogswatch or any other time!"

"You weren't?"

"No!"

"That's a bit mean, isn't it?"

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#mustrum ridcully #the dean #senior wrangler #ponder stibbons #unseen university #hogfather #discworld #terry pratchett #wizards #charity #donations #figure of speech #miscommunication #academics #let it happen #fully in agreement #holiday theme: happy hogswatch

[superstarhumbucker]

The Simile Song

Join Señor Anthony as he sings about the wild world of similes ✨ Made for KIDS and Adults of ALL ages……yes, that means YOU!!!

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#animals #children songs #creative writing #figure of speech #kid songs #music #music for kids #Music video #simile #Youtube

[recursive360]

🦇| "Blind as a bat."

Origin: When someone having a faulty vision, we can allude it as blind as a bat. Talking about its origin it comes in the class of idioms derived from animals. This is a figure of speech that based on the assumption that bats cannot see properly. Before the 21st century, people used to believe that bats are blind because of their meandering flight pattern. However, in reality, they use to navigate long distances through a process called echolocation. This assumption about bats later developed as an idiom with different meanings and today it’s used in the context of someone who has terrible eyesight or someone who can’t see even an obvious thing.

Source: theidioms.com

#idioms #figure of speech #linguistics #retro #giphy #batman #the dark knight

[sspacegodd]

When some people say: “I could care less.”

The correct phrase is: “I couldn’t care less." It illustrates your total disdain for the subject.

If you are able to care less, please do.

But until then, you are nowhere near drowning in the infinitely dry caustic pool of nihilism that I perform the backstroke in daily.

So get back to me when you are finally and truly incapable of feeling anything more than less.

#i could care less #i couldn't care less #grammar #figure of speech #i don't care #your #you're #there #they're

[girl-intrigued]

Repetition is such an underrated figure of speech

#i understand its value know #the effect it creates #repetition #figure of speech #specially the littany of one's name