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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
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a porcupine in a bag of popcorn

Serving in America’s Congress is one of the few jobs for which applicants trumpet their inexperience. Running against Washington while simultaneously asking voters to send you there makes sense when Congress is as popular as a porcupine in a bag of popcorn.

Could you tell me what it means? I think it is not idiom but a phrase coined by the writer.
  

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Let me ask you this. Would you like to have a porcupine in your bag of popcorn? Clive

— Clive

  • Let me ask you this.
  • Would you like to have a porcupine in your bag of popcorn?
  • Clive
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Let me ask you this.
Would you like to have a porcupine in your bag of popcorn?

Clive
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Would a porcupine fit in a bag of popcorn?
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You could put your popcorn in this bag.
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rpsh I think it is not idiom but a phrase coined by the writer.
I agree.
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No. So it means something make you uncomfortable or someone unpopular?
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No. I and my friends figure it means someone unpopular. But I don't know why the writer said that ' Running against Washington while simultaneously asking voters to send you there makes sense'. I consider 'while ......' means asking voters to support you. Right? Is there any information about the American politic in this sentence?
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Consider.
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as popular as a porcupine in a bag of popcorn.
as popular as a lobster in your underwear
as popular as broken glass in your cheese sandwich.
as popular
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