Steam Reflections (13)

I think when I said I should crank up the steam, I started to think about all the other sayings that had to do with steam: Run out of Steam. Steam it off. Full steam ahead... and other phrases like that. I thought about how the first machines and even some today use steam to operate. In this sense we compare ourselves to machines. It's kind of an interesting thing to think about. We don't run off steam but it makes sense what the idioms mean. Figures of speech often have strange origins that, if you don't understand, would make the phrase seem very odd. Sometimes, however, I enjoy using a very literal interpretation when people use idioms. I'm sure this practice is very annoying to others but it makes me giggle and I'm selfish sometimes so they'll just have to deal with it.