I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
Oct. 2nd, 2010 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindI just found occasion to use the phrase, "killing two birds with one stone".
I realized that my proposed course of action could, in fact, dispatch several problems at once, and amended it to "two or three birds".
For a moment, I contemplated extending the metaphor to "a veritable single-stone avian Columbine", but given that I was posting to a schoolteacher's LJ about a school-related issue, I decided that might be ever-so-slightly inappropriate.
What's it called when you push a metaphor to the breaking point, where it no longer makes sense anymore? i know there's a phrase for that, but it's eluding my Morning Brain.
I realized that my proposed course of action could, in fact, dispatch several problems at once, and amended it to "two or three birds".
For a moment, I contemplated extending the metaphor to "a veritable single-stone avian Columbine", but given that I was posting to a schoolteacher's LJ about a school-related issue, I decided that might be ever-so-slightly inappropriate.
What's it called when you push a metaphor to the breaking point, where it no longer makes sense anymore? i know there's a phrase for that, but it's eluding my Morning Brain.
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Date: 2010-10-03 02:26 am (UTC)I think I'd call that "a hyper-extended metaphor".
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Date: 2010-10-03 06:32 am (UTC)Reification? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_%28fallacy%29)
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:59 am (UTC)