Anonymous  +  686197 Fri, 13 Mar 09 10:25 AM Hello!  phrase from smallville (base on comics about superman): Besides, there's no prison sentence worse than where I've been circling the drain of obscurity.  drain of obscurity- What does she mean by that? Is that sewerage or what? Thanks a lot!     Anonymous Sentences

	Fandorin  +  686262 Fri, 13 Mar 09 01:47 PM Yes. The tube where dirty liquid is flowing. Fandorin Joined on Thu, Dec 20 2007 Moscow Contributing Member 1,384 Whatever happens, be yourself.

	Grammar Geek  +  686263 Fri, 13 Mar 09 02:03 PM I don't get that meaning at all. Circling the drain means you're in waiting pattern to go "down the drain" and fail - you're stuck and unable to prevent what will happen. But it's not sewage. Here the "obscurity" just means what he was doing was utterly meaningless and unimportant in the universe.   Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,681 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!