• tab Too many times I have wondered of what would really happen if it rained cats and dogs. If society wasn't plagued with such nonsensical and a-bit-too-imaginative phrases like this one, I wouldn't have to sit down and write about what is clogging up my mind. My guess is that if it did rain cats and dogs, we would have a spiking suicide rate from Animal Rights activists. Flash floods would be far more traumatic, for instead of being washed away by a soupy mixture of rain and mud, you would be caught in the middle of a giant brawl between feral felines and dogs. Let's just never say this one again and move on, shall we?
    tab Why on earth would anyone shoot fish in a barrel? It doesn't make any sense; you have already enslaved the fish, why must you torture them? Have you ever EATEN an fish? It tastes WONDERFUL! Why would you ruin the meat of the fish? As a matter of fact, I bet shooting fish in a barrel isn't as easy as it may seem to most, a much more obvious choice to people should be "stealing candy from a baby."
    tab The third and final figurative that I want to demote in this writing of mine is the expression "in a nutshell." Before I start ranting, however, I would like to state that I do in fact know that it is a figure of speech, so please, don't get mad at me for this one. This one is all for a few laughs.
    tab To say something is in a nutshell to me is to imply that you have minimized something down to a hypothetical space of a cubic inch. Despite the obvious problems, this could have it's uses.

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