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Ted, I always heard it as "pitchforks and hammer handles".
Regional diff., probably.
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gee, and I always though it was just cats and dogs. . .
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It's raining cats and dogs
and pitchforks and assorted frogs...
oops, wrong thread.
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Originally, I must have read it on wall, somewhere, and it stuck in my mind, contrary to most other things:
"A man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle"
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and speaking of writing on walls...
Hell hath no Fury like a Plymouth
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>Hell hath no Fury like a Plymouth
Why this reminded me, I have no idea, but I did hear about the time Sherlock Holmes caught the man-eating Japanese car, which asked Holmes how he had figured out who it was. Sherlock responded, of course, "Elementary, my were-Datsun."
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"Elementary, my were-Datsun."
under the circumstances, shouldn't that read "alimentary"?
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This beautiful simile is from Yeats :
"Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence."
I guess examples like these could go to disprove the idea -
the simile is the creatively challenged cousin of the Metaphor.
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"A man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle"
Isn't this usually the other way round? 'A woman without a man...' I can't for the life of me remember who said it - maybe Gloria Steinem?
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>and speaking of writing on walls...<
I always liked:
les noms des fous
sont ecrits partout
(the names of fools are written everywhere)
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