Today’s Pearls Before Swine: The idiom golden throat ‘a widely admired singing or speaking voice’ is both metonymic (throat for ‘voice’) and metaphorical (golden ‘like gold in value’), but it’s complex enough that someone could not see that. Rat, of course, just turns things to his own ends. Then there’s the sarcastic or ironic use … Continue reading Idiomaticity
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