metonymy

[Jonathan Lighter]

How about,

  ?This series of earthquakes is trying to break Cali off the mainland.

  The grammar sounds fine in an "artistic-creative" Weather Channel
way, but maybe the sentence is inappropriately flippant in the context of
actual hypercatastrophic earthquakes.

  JL


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