Just heard the phrase "mortally impaired" and must say I like it very much. It fits nicely in our overly sensitive world today. Saying that someone is dead might trigger people. "Hello Johnsson, how's your mortal enemy doing today?" "I made him mortally impaired by shooting him six times in the heart, and four in the head." "How very impairing of you, Johnsson!"
When it comes to the "bad guys" I prefer morally impaired. I also like the revision of the trope "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It should be "Power attracts the corruptible, absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible."
"Fuck You, and the horse you rode in on." A favorite of an old friend of mine, more 50 years ago that I heard as just a kid and always stuck. I seem to use it a lot more lately.
Recent events have reminded me of a saying my grandmother used to use when I was a kid in the early '80s. To those who wolfed their food at the dinner table: "What's the hurry? You're eating like the Russians are in Camden!" (Camden, of course, being just across the river from Philly)
Looks like it's about to come up a cloud. Translation from country Southern: a storm is coming in. My grandparents used to say it; don't know if anyone still uses it.
Reminds me of the KPOP term 'all kill' (for a track that tops every relevant chart I think). Don't know think I've ever heard it anywhere else.
Yeah, I always liked that one, too. Mainly because it doesn't make any sense. Of all the things to compare a man to... water? Not very exciting, but it does have a great ring to it. Another great one. Makes even less sense than a drink of water. I like its corollary, "the cat's ass," too. Maybe it's because cats have weird asses.
I've often thought that cats have weird asses. Not in a weird way or anything, like I've never sat down and really thought very hard about it, but it's something that I've noticed from time to time. Just in passing.
I like this one that member @Also wrote in another thread: I just imagine someone being really proud over what they've done, but also very perplexed at the same time at how they managed their success.
A tall glass of water is very refreshing. The gentleman in question was "refreshing" in that he wasn't the usual fare.
I've been studying Colson Whitehead's "The Nickel Boys" because I like its careful touch. It's filled with fantastic lines. I like this bit where the MC is moving to New York City. "The wildcat strike of ’68: an introduction to the city so wretched that he had to interpret it as a hazing." Just imagine that. You're new to the area and it's like being new to a frat house. That's a perfect parallel for the city. It's a hostile force. There's only one adjective in that main phrase (wretched) and that's to keep the sentence sparse so that it's carried by the metaphor, which of course comes at the end for maximum impact. I do see something I would change to shape the line into my voice. I suppose that doesn't matter. The important point is the elegance of the image and how it's arranged.
