http://abev.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/long-lost-musty-metaphors-of-yesteryear/ An overly eclectic, likely inconsequent[ial], and blatantly fo[w]l blog on life, family, literature, law, and religion. Fri, 03 May 2013 17:11:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://abev.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/long-lost-musty-metaphors-of-yesteryear/#comment-10345 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:21:49 +0000 http://abev.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/long-lost-musty-metaphors-of-yesteryear/#comment-10345 ‘Wassen neus’ is in current and of common use in the Dutch language and it carries the same meaning as in English.
N.B. its origin is unknown, sorry.

]]> http://abev.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/long-lost-musty-metaphors-of-yesteryear/#comment-7721 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:17:47 +0000 http://abev.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/long-lost-musty-metaphors-of-yesteryear/#comment-7721 One meaningless metaphor that I often hear is “Utah Mormon”, though it is probably not meaningless simply by virtue of having lost its reference to the sands of time. It just seems to me that the term “Utah Mormon” is a slightly (or greatly, depending on who is saying it and to whom) derogatory metaphor referencing whatever attributes the speaker finds funny and/or wrong with the LDS people in general. Or does “Utah Mormon” actually have its genesis in some sort of real, objective comparison?

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