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A friend of mine just posed a question,
Is there a term for when a metaphor becomes literally true? Like when you're handling a freshly-baked jacket potato and it's quite uncomfortable and then you think to yourself, oh yes, that'll be because it's a root vegetable with increased thermal energy?
Best I could manage off the top of my head was "determinism" but that doesn't seem quite right. What have you got?
In the case of containing a large pachyderm within the confines of a small division of a residence or other building I think "skill" and/or "WTFism" would be more appropriate.
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I was quite literally 'putting the cat amongst the pigeons' when I had that summer job in the Findus Lasagne factory
I don't think there would be a specific term for it. The metaphor is derived from the original cat/pigeon/exothermic potato situation, it doesn't 'come true'.
Verisimilitude. Probably not that accurate a term but I love the word.
My physics students were struggling with a specific orbital energy-based question which I didn't think was that difficult, but it [i]was[/i] rocket science.
molgrips - MemberVerisimilitude. Probably not that accurate a term but I love the word.
Tasty, too
I was round a friends house last night.
He was literally herding cats with one of those red dot lazers thingy's.
He managed to get them both under the TV table.
sorry I can't hear you for this obese woman singing , oh ,apparrantly its all over