ecargo1 Feb 2006

How well you know me, on the basis of so short an acquaintance! How perceptive! How perspicacious!

If the imagery is common, why do we need a poem to point it out? We know already--it's "common." They're idiomatic for a reason--"someone thought it was a good way of communicating," and apparently we agreed. Doesn't seem like you're saying much of anything at all.