I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
April 23rd, 2024 at 6:11 am
I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
Terrific haiku!