Idioms, Updated For 2020
COVID-19 has changed everything — including our use of figurative language.
Cowritten with Andrew Knott & Shannon Carpenter
He’s got an upper face only a mother could love.
Keep someone at arm + arm + arm’s length.
There’s unmitigated danger in numbers.
The elephant in the zoom call.
Fortune favors the ones who stay home.
Making a mountain out of a devastating global health crisis that is threatening the very fabric of our fragile, divided society and hastening the inevitable demise of this country.
Go ahead and cry over spilled milk. Who cares? I’ve been crying every day for months.
If the shoe fits, wear it for your daily sadness walk around the inside of your apartment.
I better hit the sack and scream into the pillow.
A day late and tens of millions of tests short.
Thank God TGI Friday’s is closed.
A meme is worth a thousand polarizing, hate-filled Facebook comments.
Kill two birds with one White House Christmas party.
He brings home the virus. (He was at that Christmas party I was just telling you about. Yeah, the one from that meme Aunt Di posted that caused Uncle Stan to unfriend her.)
We’ll cross that bridge when that guy without the mask gets off of it.
A bitter pill to swallow unless you’ve got COVID and can’t taste or smell anything anymore.
It ain’t over till there’s an effective vaccine that’s produced and administered in adequate quantity to achieve a sufficient degree of herd immunity.
Let’s call it a year… at least.
