Cleaning
I hate the phrase, "... mop the floor with ..."It usually goes like "Alex Rodriguez could mop the floor with Derek Jeter," or George Bush would mop the floor with John Kerry" meaning that Player A or Candidate A is much superior than Player or Candidate B as to defeat the latter so thoroughly as to use him like a dirty rag. Very occasionally you get a headline like this, "FU [Fairfield University] prepares to mop the floor with discrimination," which is much less penetrable.
On the other hand, for someone uninitiated with baseball, or less knowledgeable with the less-than-amicable political wind, "mopping the floor" just sound like a couple of friends spending an afternoon for spring cleanning. And while we are at it, can we stop "cleaning the clocks" too?
posted by hedgehog @ 11:48 PM
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