Things I Haven’t Yet Heard Described as “On Steroids” (and I’d Rather Not)

Things I Haven’t Yet Heard Described as “On Steroids” (and I’d Rather Not)
Howard Zaharoff reads (a lot), writes (mostly humor), teaches (occasionally) and practices law (doesn't everyone?). He is the author of "Stump Your Lawyer!" (Chronicle 2007), and his work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Amazing Stories, Computerworld, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, The Annals of Improbable Research and the books Growing Up Jewish (Penguin 1987) and Sex As a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and Further Improbabilities) (Workman 1993), among other places.
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Any idiom on this list has run its course and should be “put out to pasture.” The idiom “on steroids” — as in “COVID is like the flu, … Read more

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