[FRIAM] More on Metaphor, WAS: firefox and memory

[Nick Thompson]

Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well
*could* have a bursar under his saddle.

 

Yes.  But since he is posting from Australia, it is probably a burr.  

 

I have often puzzled over this metaphor, even while using it.  Notice that,
unlike your ".wild hare." [trying to be a bit delicate, here], it actually
speaks to the restlessness of the horse, rather than the rider.  So, to have
a burr under one's saddle, is to be riding an uncontrollable horse, not to
be out of control oneself.   So, technically, the republican party has a
burr under its saddle but trump has a wild hare, etc. [trying to be
delicate, here]. Still, to have a rider with a wild hare, on a horse with a
burr under its saddle, is, well, just bad government.  

 

But I don't know how it is in Australia. 

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

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> We haven't heard a lot of from you, lately.  Any bursr do you  under 

> your saddle you'ld like to talk about?

 

Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well
*could* have a bursar under his saddle.

 

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