Wednesday, June 9, 2010

sayings

When's the last time someone made up a saying, or cliche. Like, "a bird in hand" or "15 minutes of fame?" Is there a time frame that needs to be filled before a phrase can become a saying. Here's one: "Just a tweet away." It could be referring to a time frame, like, "I'm just a tweet away from helping you out." Or how about "Crazy slow?" "My day has been crazy slow, there were hardly any customers in today," meaning it was so slow it was maddening. Or the opposite: "Crazy fast." "Dude, you are some crazy fast! How'd you do that so fast?" "Crazy happy": "That kid is some kind of crazy happy!" It'd be interesting to see how fast something like that could catch on; like a moth to a flame.

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