Bryan Garner noticed this New York Times headline about Nikki Haley: “Haley Threads a Needle Between Trump’s Coattails and His Wrath.”
Block that metaphor!
But on second thought, it might be better to let that metaphor stand. Let Nikki Haley thread that needle, or try to, down between the coattails and wrath. It must be awful there. As the poet said,
Between the coattailsRelated reading
And the wrath
Falls the Needle.
(Hey, watch it!)
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[That headline appears in print. Online, the headline is more sober: “With Trump in Her State, Haley Finds Some Political Distance (Gently).”]
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