You should go to the cinema tonight, and then pop out to a local bar afterwards.
Seriously.
It’ll be like shooting fish in a barrel.
You should go to the cinema tonight, and then pop out to a local bar afterwards.
Seriously.
It’ll be like shooting fish in a barrel.
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I’ve never understood the expression “shooting fish in a barrel”. I imagine it’d still be quite difficult. Maybe I’m imagining one of those big fat barrels that people fall into in cartoons. Still, for the sake of clarity, I would prefer something like, “shooting a cow in a barrel.”
Surely a barrel large enough to hold a cow would cease to be a barrel?
So the phrase should actually be: “Like shooting a cow in a vat.”
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Jason, I think your confusion comes from the lack of a proper plural for fish. If it was shooting *A* fish in a barrel, then it would be quite difficult. Shooting into a barrel full of fish, so full there’s no room for water, would be quite easy.
Unless you had a really small bullet or were blind or the gun exploded in your face or something.
Perhaps it’s actually a very small fish – an anchovy perhaps – placed into the barrel of your gun before firing.
In which case even blindness and small bullets wouldn’t save our piscine pal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-MpXCMcIs
So it’s nothing to do with getting the lead singer from Marillion to sit in a barrel while you do some target practice then?
Shame.