Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat. I see him floating in the air. But mark me, sir, I will nip him in the bud.
A Pentagon staffer, complaining that efforts to reform the military have been too timid: "It's just ham-fisted salami-slicing by the bean counters."
I wanted a visual sense of the socioeconomic stew in which Al Qaeda flourished.
Anyone have any favourite metaphors like this?
Asking this both because I'm genuinely interested and because I think my peak creative achievement was coming up with the phrase
"silver lining to the pyrocumulonimbus above the dumpster fire that is X".
