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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Of course it's a metaphor
It's a metaphor for "I don't care/I'm not interested". I have no interest in cricket scores, so I'd say "I couldn't care less about cricket scores". I most likely could care less about something else, but as it's a metphor it doesn't matter.

When someone dies, you can say "they kicked the bucket". Except in the vanishingly small percentage of deaths that resulted from someone actually kicking a bucket, then 'kicking the bucket' is a metaphor.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 18:11, 2 replies)
What the hell? 'I couldn't care less' is not a metaphor.
What does the fact that you could care less about something else have to do with it?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 18:20, closed)
no it's not, it's a statement in plain language
if you said "I couldn't rub a duck about cricket scores" but actually meant "I don't give a fuck about cricket scores" that would be a metaphor
but saying "I couldn't care less about cricket scores" means you couldn't care less about cricket scores, it's not a metaphor
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:20, closed)

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