Timeline for Idiom meaning to talk about something everyone already knows
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 11:42 | comment | added | Will Crawford | Yes, but it means something slightly different. Off the top of my head, a good example would be the common trope in detective dramas of a group of adult children awaiting the death of an elderly relative ... | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | Theraot | @Anthony "Circling like vultures" is not a common expression, yet, it exists. ngram, example related to news. | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 10:17 | comment | added | Will Crawford | @Anthony if you're going for ghoulish you could just describe the person's behaviour as that. I've often described news coverage of the kind you describe using that very word. | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 23:09 | comment | added | Anthony | This is my favorite so far. Whatever I'm thinking of probably doesn't exist, but this one comes the closest to conveying the menacing almost ghoulish tone I had in mind. | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 16:58 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 15, 2017 at 16:49 | history | answered | Jay M | CC BY-SA 3.0 |