okay so here's a sentence which I heard on children's television show years ago and it's always stuck with me. the sentence is as follow: "All other clothes would suddenly burst open." Don't know why this stick in my mind. It always has for some strange reason.
Now I see why when I drop out of context lines an metaphors to people, they practically never guess what it meant. I thought it was either a non-writer problem or my fault for being unclear, perhaps context is more important than I've credited... If you didn't specify it as coming from a children's show, my interpretation would be vastly different. I pictured a futuristic event like superheroes traveling into a vortex wearing specialized suites because "all other clothes would suddenly burst open." I've never attributed clothes to bursting open... unless of course outside of children's media... without those two specific words my mental image would be way different. Maybe I'm weird.
