If you are close to a writer, here is a great gift idea for commonplaces. I keep one of these in my briefcase, and when I run across an odd phrase that makes me think of another odd phrase, or an odd phrase just pops into my head, I make a point of writing it down. Maybe I will then use it in something else I am writing. Maybe I won’t. Here are some of these phrases, taken right out of my moleskin, and arranged in no particular order: fifty-gallon drum of lasagne, the joint is jumping, chonked him a rope, jejune bug, sunny uplands, got the fingers of my soul caught in a spiritual doorjamb and cried out to the Lord, and three tons of confetti emptied into a tornado.
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