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Grex Language Item 121: Metaphors - straight, mixed or stirred.
Entered by rcurl on Mon Mar 10 17:34:54 UTC 2003:

Metaphors are the spice of language.

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#1 of 1 by rcurl on Mon Mar 10 17:46:19 2003:

A thank-you-for-a-contribution letter arrived today from the National
Committee for an Effective Congress (NCEC). The following paragraph was in
the letter:

  "Whatever the political climate, the NCEC will turn every stone to
  defeat right wing extremist candidates at the polls."

I have invented the term "stirred metaphor" for a common metaphor that
is changed in some fashion from the conventional form.

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