>There can be little doubt that anyone seeing the image of Mickey Mouse (or even his silhouette), immediately thinks of Disney. Image probably, but the phrase

>There can be little doubt that anyone seeing the image of Mickey Mouse (or even his silhouette), immediately thinks of Disney. Image probably, but the phrase "Mickey Mouse" has acquired a fairly common meaning (at least in the UK and Ireland, don't know about the rest of the world) outside of the character - roughly meaning something like simplistic, shoddy or cheap. For example, this (http://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/mickey-mouse-solution-slammed-30557836.html http://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news...) article talking about a plan as a "'Mickey Mouse' solution to a much bigger traffic problem in the Dublin Road area." I suspect that few people over here would immediately think about Disney when they read this article.