Feeding Tube: The Next Intarweb Cliché?
What with the Schiavo event and now the Pope being fed through his nose, I'm going to get the ball rolling and declare "Feeding Tube" to be the next Intarweb cliché. It's not a bad one, really. Lots of uses.
Put in a Feeding Tube: An overarching concept of life support or sustaining life for a subject that is on its last legs; a resuscitation of a dying enterprise. A subsequent or final chance; 'Chapter 11' protection.
Conversely, the Removal of Feeding Tube concept could deal with the cessation of support for a subject on its last legs - a mercy killing, in some cases.
Examples:
- JetsGo Given Feeding Tube by Investors
- Joe's relationship put on feeding tube as wife takes him back
- Viagra is the sexual feeding tube for the new millenium
- Government gives $1Billion Feeding Tube to Cattlemen
- Bank pulls Feeding Tube on Farmers
- CBS removes Anchor Rather's Feeding Tube: he's off the air