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Just when I was puzzling over what to write today, The Onion came to my rescue with Idiom shortage leaves nation all sewed up in horse pies. Here’s a taster:
WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.
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What? I’m a bit puzzled. who knew there were so many idioms out there? Shortage or no shortage, the article certainly did have quite a number of idioms peeking out from every sentence. I don’t even know how to interpret some of them. All I know are the basic cat out of the bag samples. But they sure are amusing!
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