Matt Johnson wrote:
----- Original Message ---- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 2:18:25 PM Subject: Re: How do you grow brocolli? On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:How do you grow brocolli?Read My Lips: Ask Dan Quayle!That's a mixed metaphor, if I ever saw one.Metaphor? I don't see a metaphor.
"Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe.
The literal meaning is "pay close attention to what I say",
so it is certainly a figure of speech.
Mike
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