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I've never heard to "Pedal to the Mettle" ...
I hope you mean "it was a day rivaled only by the day that my daughter was born." The former sounds like your daughter's birthday was your worst day ever, and the success of your toy was just slightly better than that.
Does the author actually mean "Pedal to the Metal" ? The original saying comes from pressing the gas pedal as far as it goes, until it presses against the metal underneath and can go no further. I've never heard to "Pedal to the Mettle" ...
Does the author actually mean "Pedal to the Metal" ? The original saying comes from pressing the gas pedal as far as it goes, until it presses against the metal underneath and can go no further. I've never heard to "Pedal to the Mettle" ...
"Mettle" means willingness to succeed or endure; standfastness. I'm assuming the title is just a pun.
But still, nice idea - thanks.
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"Mettle" means willingness to succeed or endure; standfastness. I'm assuming the title is just a pun.
Ah. I was aware of the meaning of mettle, I was just unsure if it was deliberate. It's a nice theory that it's a deliberate pun, but I'm not sure it works. It feels the same as "The proof is in the pudding" and other, similarly meaningless distortions of old adages that made sense in the original. But still, nice idea - thanks.
I found it interesting how in the photos, many of the "factories" look like little more than junkyards or disaster areas, and how many of the people working in them looked like teenagers or possibly even children. That plus all the shady dealings going on may explain at least in part how China is able to manufacture so many things so cheaply compared to the US. Shameful.
Last year I bought two Autoblox cars, two months apart. First was of a very high manufacturing quality, it snapped together very tightly, everything aligned and it was just a pleasure to hold and play with. It was the reason why I bought another one. Got it from the same place, exact same packaging, authenticity label and what not. And what a wobbly piece of shit it was. Major quality problems. And what is strange, i…
LEGO's gone probably 20-30 years without letting me down in terms of physical quality of the pieces. I can't say that about any other vendor I've bought from over the same time period (not even Apple, for example). Well, not counting consumables like toothpaste. I've never had a bad experience with say Colgate.
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Ah. I was aware of the meaning of mettle, I was just unsure if it was deliberate. It's a nice theory that it's a deliberate pun, but I'm not sure it works. It feels the same as "The proof is in the pudding" and other, similarly meaningless distortions of old adages that made sense in the original. But still, nice idea - thanks.
It's actually "The proof is in the putting", where "putting" refers to putting the pedal to the metal ;)