[LMB] Ot: was potter free list: now book-swamping

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- Rachel Ganz <rachel at compromise.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Having spent last week in a field of mud (closely resembling a swamp) I was
> pondering why all the verbs that are commonly used to describe an over-sufficiency of something
> had damp roots.

Drowned, swamped, flooded - hmm. Yes. How about 'snowed under'?

> Even avalanches have a frozen water association. So I considered whether I could produce from my
> reasonably well-stocked word cupboard something that implied an arid sufficiency. But all the
> dry words seem to imply that you don't have enough of something.

Abundance equals wetness... Well, you could say you were buried in paperwork, it could imply being
buried in dry, dry sand.  

namaste,
Elizabeth