Meaning: dancing around nervously
Rewrite 1: nervous as a dog on a short leash
Rewrite 2: nervous as a canary in a cage full of cats
Rewrite 3: teeth chattering like nervous skeletons
Rewrite 4: toes tapping nervously like boys before recess
Comment: Different kinds of nervousness, different ways of showing it.
More reading about clichés
What I found when I googled “clichés”:
•JRRShop: Eccentric software ZK rhymes and clichés.
Note: By providing links to other websites I am only showing you what is out there about clichés – I am not endorsing any content or opinion expressed there.
Check out the searchable alphabetical list of all my cliché rewrites available in the archive list at the right.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
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1 comment:
I is funny to realize how many ways exist to say the same thing, it is like having different dimensions to travel thought the universe of understanding.
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