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How to explain the metaphorical use of watershed in, "Great artists come from watershed"?

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Googling for "Great artists come from watershed" doesn't come up with any examples of this. Can you provide some more context? – Andrew Grimm Feb 15 at 8:16
Unless it meant the media centre Watershed in the UK. There is a common metaphorical use of watershed for a brief moment in time which leads to immense changes after which everything is different, which comes from the literal meaning of a drainage divide (unlike in US & Canada where watershed is often used of drainage basins rather than the boundary between them), which could well be used of "Great artists"; "All great artists have a watershed, after which they produce their great work" (not that I agree with that as a statement). – Jon Hanna Feb 15 at 10:12

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According to a standard Google search (which lists this actual OP as the only meaningful instance of its use) and a Google books corpora search, the phrase simply does not exist.

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