Like the sea upon the sand
Posted by Word Camel on July 01, 2003
In Reply to: Dust in the wind. posted by ESC on July 01, 2003
: : : Whoops! I started a phrase discussion a few days ago, and then that whole board went into archive. Here is my original post plus a single reply to date, from bob:
: : : I am curious to learn whether people here have some good phrases or images for ephemerality. To give an example, one that I know is a simile: "fading like dew on the grass of a summer's morn".
: : : to which Bob added:
: : : Like a pork chop in a boarding house.
: : A snowball in hell
: I'll look in a descriptive dictionary and see what I can find. All I can think of at the moment is the old song, "Dust in the Wind." That song is full of fleeting moment phrases.
A flash in the pan.. I'll add others if I can think of them
- Sands through an hourglass ESC 07/01/03
- Sands through an hourglass Hopper 07/02/03
- Fade as a leaf ESC 07/02/03
- Ephemeral Barney 07/03/03
- Exhaust the little moment ESC 07/02/03
- Fade as a leaf ESC 07/02/03
- Sands through an hourglass Hopper 07/02/03