Re: [Pen-l] labor and the auto companies

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure this is a mixed metaphor, merely a condensed double
metaphor. The original metaphors are quite dead and have little
metaphorical force by themselves, but here one is forced first to
resurrect both because of the clash of putting eggs into a lemon, then
(I think) generate an expansion of "lemon" into a new implicit metaphor:
We are in times when safe nesteggs turn out to be cars that break down
two days off the showroom floor -- or something like that. Keep "eggs" a
dead metaphor (and therefore more or less literal) and revive the dead
metaphor of "lemon."

Maybe. I had fun playing around with it anyhow.

Carrol

Dan Scanlan wrote:
> 
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
> > putting all their eggs into a lemon. (mixed metaphor alert!)
> 
> Once you set sail in a metaphor don't swap horses until you at least
> get to the end of the sentence.
> -- Dr. Frank Sullivan, Professor of English, Loyola University of Los
> Angeles
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