My BFF from high school, up in snowy Alaska, sent this fun fabric email:
This week's theme
Fabric words used metaphorically
This week's words
chintzy
pinstriped
dirty linen
flannelmouth
I've heard peaches described as cottony, as in, "Late peaches are all cottony inside." Maybe it's a Virginia thing?
Cheap people are chintzy, but generous people are never satiny or silky.
We all know about airing dirty linen in public, (witness the current Republican Primaries for a more direct example of dirty linen airing in real time) but no one ever advises showing off your clean linens either.
What other fabric related words can you think of?
1 comment:
speaking of flannel (and primaries)... "to flannel" to avoid telling the truth.
I always thought that sort of belittled poor old flannel, which I sort of like.
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