# What's the worst-stretched metaphor/analogy you've heard?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 4, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-stretched-metaphor-analogy-youve-heard/21390 "2000-06-04T21:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![\_BANNED\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9d8465/32.png) [@\_BANNED\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_BANNED_1)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-stretched-metaphor-analogy-youve-heard/21390/1 "2000-06-04T21:18:36Z")

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You can’t stretch your metaphor too far out from the base, because you get metaphor shear.

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**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-stretched-metaphor-analogy-youve-heard/21390/2 "2000-06-06T02:17:57Z")

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I waxed eloquent once, and strained my vocal cords.  
BANNED, from IMHO thread on how many women actually  
shave their arms.

No, I didn’t mean that - I actually found it quite  
funny…

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**Author:** ![Bullroar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Bullroar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullroar)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-stretched-metaphor-analogy-youve-heard/21390/3 "2000-06-06T02:40:06Z")

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Seems like every half-time locker room speech is full of them.

One time, “The team is like a train, we all have to go the same way. One guy is out front, with a coal car guy next, then a line of linemen, then a wimpy kicker for a caboose, but only when we need it.” On and on for ten minutes.

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**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-stretched-metaphor-analogy-youve-heard/21390/4 "2000-06-06T05:55:28Z")

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One time I was really high and I told my friend Suzy she looked like a “melted candle.”

It made no sense, which both of us realized even though we were fucked up. I think in my mind was an image of a pillar candle slighly melted so it curves…I don’t know. But we laughed about that for hours.