Tagged analogy

PM says he now has ‘foot on throat’ of poor COVID-19 analogies

chrisf
UK News
November 28, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he may be close to to a cure for poorly thought out COVID-19 analogies, after nearly nine months of metaphors, implausible comparisons and public schoolly personalisation of the deadly coronavirus. [read...]

Gwyneth Paltrow sent to Afghanistan for using inappropriate analogy

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Celebrity
June 2, 2014

After the latest ruling under the new crowd-sourced sentencing system, Gwyneth Paltrow faces six months’ front line service in Afghanistan’s Helmand province for carelessly using an analogy that used war to describe the feeling of dehumanisation after receiving insults online. [read...]