From Public Radio International's otherwise excellent The World:
With so many pressing issues on his plate, Mr. Obama is engaged in an astonishing juggling act.Related reading
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Mixed metaphor of the day
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Maybe their metaphoric plates were spinning on the tops of poles in a KIND of juggling act...?
I shouldn't talk, of course, after my "quagmire" fiasco...
Maybe he is on a giant plate representing America, juggling issues on smaller plates which also have smaller Obama's also juggling issues which are on plates, ad infinitum.
AS I wrote in a friends site little ago.
Here there are to interesting scientific theories about metaphors:
1."Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature."
2."metaphor IS a fundamental mechanism that allows us to apply Stone Age ways of thinking to abstract subject matters"
Language is so wierd (and also complex).
T. and Logan, I looked for a clip of the plate-spinning acts that used to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, but no luck. Those guys had nothing on their plates. I like the plates upon plates upon plates idea, as in "Turtles all the way down."Mariana, I would agree that metaphor is indeed fundamental to sense-making and world-making.
Though I've tried four times, I cannot get Blogger to put a blank line between down and Mariana's name. So please imagine a new paragraph there.
This raises mixing metaphors almost to an art form. I'd say it's (at least) the equivalent of a limerick.
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