What I mean is like for example, a person having “gravitational pull” or someone making a “quantum leap” makes no sense to anyone who knows about physics. Gravity is extremely weak and quantum leaps are tiny.

Or “David versus Goliath” to describe a huge underdoge makes no sense to anyone who knows about history, because nobody bringing a gun to a sword fight is going to be the underdog but that’s essentially what David did.

I’m looking for more examples like that.

  • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Not sure of the etymology of that one either… I assume having one’s finger up their butt isn’t exactly a productive use of time unless the task at hand is butt stimulation. Congrats on the sex though