If you live with a cat, “played with” means “gone forever.” As in, “Where is my pen?” “It fell on the floor and got played with.” If you live with a bird, however, “played with” means, roughly, “torn into little shreds to the point of no longer being recognizable.”
In other news, I’m on chapter five […]
Cats and birds: an observation
March 7th, 2008 · 22 Comments
Tags: Writing