It’s a very neatly descriptive phrase. Were Rage Against The Machine the first to come up with and use it in a creative work?
Quite literally the first I’ve ever heard the phrase.
OTOH, I don’t listen to much RATM, other than what comes on the local college radio, so just the barest sampling.
IMHO, the phrase really may be a de la Rocha invention. It certainly fits with the idea of a lyric, including the internal rhyme (gliding “calm” to sound like “bomb”).
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In my 53 years of reading and watching, I’m never heard this.
Since this is about a song lyric, let’s move it to Cafe Society.
Colibri
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I’ve never heard it, and I’ve listened to their eponymous album many times, though admittedly I don’t play close attention. Tom Morello is the main attraction.
It also doesn’t make sense.
I’d never heard it before the Rage Against the Machine song of the same name.
For those that are wondering, Urban Dictionary’s definition seems good.
Joining the chorus of ‘never heard of it’.
Yeah, I only heard of it from the Rage Against the Machine song because it was in the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack. Still no idea why I remember that, or how I noticed it in the first place. I haven’t heard the phrase since. Is it common?
Certainly not in books, though possibly in social media or somewhere else. Still, I’ve never come across it.
n + 1 whatever n is up to by now.
It’s like ignorance by induction! I love it! 