• Turkeys & Flowers for My Word Collection

    In Australia, there’s an expression called the “tall poppy syndrome,” in which the tallest (most popular, most successful) flower must be cut down to size (brought down).

    While trying to counsel his daughter, Miley Cyrus, on her “shocking” Annie Leibovitz photos, Billy Ray Cyrus put this much less eloquently as “the turkey with the tallest neck is the one everybody’s shootin’ at.”

    Flowers & turkeys, Australia or Alabama, it’s all Greek to me.

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