like a lion
And speaking of “time“… It’s March! Suddenly! Voraciously!
Earlier I asked, “Where are the lions?” When I couldn’t find any (in my apartment?) I made one myself:
In like a lion, out like a lamb.
Errr. What does that even mean? Like, really? I get the weather allusion…but now I’m thinkinnnng about it….and if I keep typing while I’m thinking, this could easily become a whole, long diatribe discussion about colloquialisms…But I’m going to save it for after I go grocery shopping.
While I pre-muse my musing, I’ll ask you, Anonymous, with your ear on the ground: what idioms are developing today that you think will have Generational Stay Power? Or, do you think that the speed of Internet communication overrides the creation of (new) proverbs? Maybe it replaces the “proverb” with the Net meme…
Or is that theory bull? Perhaps the meme means (fun to say…) that the idiom has Evolved….
Or could the power of Internet as Archive indicate a colloquial freeze — a kind of knowledge carbonite, if you will — where the idioms of the past stay with us, cached on message boards and stuck in digital news headlines forever…?
All these questions and more. Think about it. Write about it, if you care to. (Check that link in the upper right corner: “Hungry.” That’s right: Hungry — for your participation.)
And now, I’m out like a lamb (zing!) to run to the market*.
*Note: “Little Piggy” joke = UNINTENTIONAL.
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