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"Long slow slog" and "hits a tipping point", to name two.
by joeyo 17y ago
"Long slow slog" and "hits a tipping point", to name two.
- ericb 17y agoSlog means to "work hard and steadily." That phrase uses alliteration, not metaphor. http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog
- joeyo 17y agoTo my mind, the literal definition is the previous one "to plod heavily" (as in through snow) and it has, over time, idiomatically come to mean any kind of hard, slow work. The metaphor has come to roost in the dictionary, so to say. (-:
- pvg 17y ago"the moan of doves in immemorial elms and murmuring of innumerable bees" "the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free" That's alliteration. 'long slow slog' is "misremembered the cliche 'long hard slog'".