Keep your hands off my eyes!

Let this be a warning to anyone considering outsourcing writing to a non-English-speaking country or to any country where common idioms are not so common. You’ll wind up looking as foolish as the folks at yahoo.com who made this eye-popping word choice:

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2 Responses to “Keep your hands off my eyes!”

  1. ZZMike Says:

    But my thesaurus says that grabbing is almost exactly like catching….

    “… some are definitely louder than others…”

    Now THERE’s a mixed metaphor.


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