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Rommel Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Does this sentence of mine containing figurative language sound fine?

Does this sentence of mine containing figurative language sound fine?

To be a ’fast runner’ in the field of romance is to be a potential victim of tragedies. 
  

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'Fast runner' is unfamiliar and hard to interpret.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Fast runner' is unfamiliar and hard to interpret.
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'Fast runner' is unfamiliar and hard to interpret.
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I'm not sure I agree. "Fast" is slang for sexually active, and we have the expression "playing the field" for those socially active if not promiscuous. (American) football uses the expression "broken-field running. And isn't romance strewn with pitfalls?

The trope is unfamiliar, so it shouldn't stand alone, but I think it has potential.
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Mister Micawber'Fast runner' is unfamiliar and hard to interpret.
If I say, 'To (do a romance in haste, hurry a romance) is to (be, fall) a potential victim of tragedy,' would it be OK or not? If not, how can I sound grammatical?
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There's a saying "Marry in haste; repent in leisure."

Does that help?
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