@[email protected]M to Comic [email protected] • 2 months agoThe Pedants Clublemmy.worldimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1810arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months ago…and we don’t have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoTechnically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months ago“Off the rails” is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the “rails” are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.
…and we don’t have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.
Technically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.
“Off the rails” is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the “rails” are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.