Is how metaphors become memes. Take one that's glided with swanlike grace into the stream of our economic discourse this summer: With both parties competing for the mantle of austerity, they’re acting a bit like two crazed medeival (sic) doctors leeching a patient who’s already suffering from catastrophic blood loss.
Borrow and spend...
Borrow and spend...
Borrow and spend...
Is how metaphors become memes. Take one that's glided with swanlike grace into the stream of our economic discourse this summer: With both parties competing for the mantle of austerity, they’re acting a bit like two crazed medeival (sic) doctors leeching a patient who’s already suffering from catastrophic blood loss.