Friday, June 22, 2007

Warning: may contain metaphors

The Independent must be having a competition to see who can cram the most metaphors into the smallest space. Here is Nick Smith’s entry (not online) in Wednesday’s issue:
Where others raised the spectre of a hard landing, she has consistently argued there is a lot more petrol in the Kiwi economic tank. And the Citibank bull was right. It is with no small measure of irony that Beacher noted the economic worm has now turned, just as the Reserve Bank further cranked its OCR handle to dampen domestic demand.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Amelia said...

Was he gilding the metaphoric lily?

2:11 PM  
Blogger d f mamea said...

jesus h christ!

4:31 PM  

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