Failure to reach proverbial status
A Roz Chast cartoon from the July 27th New Yorker: Each panel has its subject failing to reach the level required for some piece of formulaic language to apply: She’s a force of nature. After he was made, people threw away the mold. She’s completely irrepressible.
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