HuffPost Asks Readers to Find Cliches and Mixed Metaphors in Alterman's Writing

Apologies for our tardiness on this one. There’s probably still a little time to get your thoughts into HuffPost Hill on The Nation’s Eric Alterman’s prose and get that shout-out. The deadline is today.

ALTERCATION – Finding all the cliches and mixed metaphors in this Eric Alterman paragraph is like cutting fish in a barrel with a butter knife. A shout-out in Monday’s HuffPost Hill to the citizen copy editor who can identify all of them, with a bonus point for spotting the factual error:

“And yet even with all its proverbial ducks lined up — a populist crusade is just what the doctor ordered for a divided and dispirited party going into perilous midterm elections — the administration and its lieutenants in Congress are still shooting as many blanks as real bullets at the bad guys.

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