I once emailed the cognitive linguist and author George Lakoff out of the blue to ask him what he thought about this obnoxious rhetorical convention of putting

I once emailed the cognitive linguist and author George Lakoff out of the blue to ask him what he thought about this obnoxious rhetorical convention of putting things into “buckets” and he replied, attaching a paper he’d written about buckets being an arbitrary metaphor. It was thrilling and very educational!