1.What does 'He's wound up tighter than a drum' mean? It's a mixed metaphor/simile for tension, but it used to be quite popular. The coil springs which powered old fashioned toys were wound up with a key. We used to wind our

can you give me a example of a metaphor? Lawyers are sharks. The Johnson twins are clowns in class. Her husband was a rock during her illness. What he said was music to my ears. Luke is an open book. A second chick is an insurance policy for

can you give me a metaphor that is something about new experiences in love relationships?

Hi, Please have a look at this: “The mood now is for customers to ask you, ‘Come and tell me where you can help me and give me a proposition where you also co-share some of the risk’”, said Azim Premji, chairman of Indian software

My real question is whether "in my tying to explain how can I..." here is an attributive or an adverbial? It doesn't seem to be clearly either attributive or adverbial to me -- although you may want to consider it adverbial as

"bottlered" EXT. ALLEY EVENING Henry arrives in his tux. Julius strolls out to meet him. JULIUS Overdressed, aren't you? HENRY Where is she? I want to see her. Julius nods to one of his men. He goes into the building they came out of

Anyone see this? I loved it. The arrival of a ... too droll for its own good...but not quite. A winner. I really wanted to like this film and I kept trying to like it right until it faded out and left me feeling a shallow and pointless

Anyone see this? I loved it. The arrival of a mysterious letter sends Bill Murray on a quest to find ... that epynomous film. One of the drollest films ever, almost too droll for its own good...but not quite. A winner. I really wanted to like this

"What makes you thick" doesn't make sense in English. It certainly isn't idiomatic. You can talk about what makes someone tick, however, which means what motivates someone or what their way of thinking is. For example,

New York Times November 14, 1994 Exploring the Links Between Depression, Writers and Suicide By WILLIAM GRIMES When the poet Anne Sexton learned of Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963, she was horrified. "That death was mine," she said.