Meaning: it won’t hurt me. Definitions and uses. Rewrite 1: no skin off my shin Rewrite 2: it won’t break any of my bones Rewrite 3: no knee in the groin here Rewrite 4: no burned fingers from this one
Comment: This cliché is often given as a response to a threat or warning, so the rewrite needs to play off as such a response.
More reading about clichés What I found when I googled “clichés”: • IWJ Journal: Article about website that offers a searchable database of clichés.
Check out the newalphabetical list of all my cliche rewrites available in the archive list at the right.
posted by Booksville Bookclub at 11:59 AM on Jan 14, 2006
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