Chinese: "The crying baby gets the milk."
A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out
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Re: A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never head that understanding of the squeaky wheel gets the grease . I thought it was about the loudest/most obvious issues gets attention.
It is. The second sentence is describing a "tall poppy". My point is that I think the author is comparing metaphors that don't make sense to compare.
Isn't that the author's point?
> "But in one [metaphor], the object out of step gets beaten into submission, whereas the other gets its needs met and returns to functioning properly."