Monday, January 09, 2006

Cliché: sweep it under the rug

(entered for 1-09-06)

Meaning: hide something for
nefarious reasons. Definitions and uses.
Rewrite 1:
sweeptv2 it under the sofa
Rewrite 2: drop it into a heating
grate
Rewrite 3: take it
AWOL
Rewrite 4: sweep it into a
black hole

Comment 1: The hard part of this rewrite is to keep the cliché’s sense of intrigue.

Comment 2: When I tried to find a link to a definition for "black hole" for rewrite 4, I went to the California Space Institute website, the link provided by www.answers.com. The results page I received was "Object not found!" How ironic.

More reading about clichés
What I found when I
googled “clichés”:
CISAB Animal Proverbs & Cliches: “…from the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior…”

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