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faclonwhirr) wrote2008-11-12 02:50 pm
faclonwhirr) wrote2008-11-12 02:50 pm
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Writer's Block: Idiomatic Confusion
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"There's more than one way to skin a cat."
This one vexes me on many levels. First of all, who exactly is so cruel as to take a cat and rip the flesh from its bones with his blades and watch it die in agony? The answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, Moloch, but that's neither here nor there.
The real thing that causes me to waste hours of thought on this topic is that, as far as I can figure, there is only one way to skin a cat, or any fleshy creature for that matter. You take a knife and skin the damn thing. One way. Until someone can tell me a second way to skin something, I don't want to hear anyone using this figure of speech.
And if I do hear someone using it, I will gladly demonstrate the one way to skin a fleshbag.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat."
This one vexes me on many levels. First of all, who exactly is so cruel as to take a cat and rip the flesh from its bones with his blades and watch it die in agony? The answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, Moloch, but that's neither here nor there.
The real thing that causes me to waste hours of thought on this topic is that, as far as I can figure, there is only one way to skin a cat, or any fleshy creature for that matter. You take a knife and skin the damn thing. One way. Until someone can tell me a second way to skin something, I don't want to hear anyone using this figure of speech.
And if I do hear someone using it, I will gladly demonstrate the one way to skin a fleshbag.
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