I’m trying to decide if I want to start aggregating them and doing a weekly post.
Here’s the latest (from an HFY story):
You fight to annihilate. You do not view war as a spiritual trial; you view it as an engineering problem.
This editing page has been open most of the week and that’s all I’ve got. I’m adding this one, mostly as padding.
[The dog] had beaten me into the action, tearing through the rats. I wasn’t remotely envious of him. In no world did I think the idea of ripping apart these vermin with my teeth would be pleasant.
I did stumble upon two dead metaphors this week:
Pot calling the kettle black
Very few people have cast iron pots; even fewer have cast iron kettles. Cooking over a sooty flame (“on the hob”) is even more rare. I think it’s safe to say that one’s dead.
Cream rises to the top
Milk has been homogenized for my entire life. I did have a share in dairy herd for a while when I was living in Denver. We got milk as a dividend, since buying raw milk is (stupidly) illegal. This one may not be quite dead, but it’s very close.
