Friday, August 21, 2015

FIGURES OF SPEECH: Food similes are what's on the menu

I take a fairly intense double class at the Y that starts at 5:50 p.m. and ends at about 7:30. If you eat dinner before class, you're going to be uncomfortable. But you're going to get increasingly hungry as class progresses.
It didn't help that tonight our instructor kept making references to food.
After three sets of grueling lunges: "Here comes the icing on the cake!"
Doing overhead presses: "Hold your plate flat, like your dinner's on it!"
Toward the end of class: "You got this, team! Piece of cake! . . . Why do I keep talking about cake?"
She claimed it was accidental -- but of course she would say that, wouldn't she.

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