Meaning: stay alert or you’ll loose your edge. Use examples.
Rewrite 1: fall sleep, miss the joke
Rewrite 2: doze at the wheel, miss the curven2
Rewrite 3: look away, lose your way
Rewrite 4: close your lids, lose your kids
Comment: Since this is a metaphor, we can consider other ways of “snoozing,” like becoming distracted, resting your eyes, looking away, and so on.
More reading about clichés
What I found when I googled “clichés”:
• Fly Fishing Clichés: “Things to say and know to be a fly fisherman!”
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.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
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