It's only a metaphor!

[#1]

The language police are at it again...  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44138229

[#2]

Does that mean the period of austerity is over?

[#3]

Perhaps we'll be flush with cash. 

[#4]

And yet again, some feel they have to apologise.

Stupid, stupid, and gutless. Whatever next, sorry for using the word hysterical?

[#5]

Woosh! the sound of Mav humour flying over the heads of some

[#6]

All words, in every language, are metaphors. (Marshall McLuhan)

What is significant here is not that Mr Broadbent used a metaphor, but that the one he chose to use was inappropriate and potentially offensive.

[#7]

With the original meaning being month+end/halt I shall offend everyone by saying that the interest on my savings account is paid menopausally.

And no, I'm not flush with money, hot or cold.

[#8]

Is Broadbent a metaphor?

We need to be told. 

[#9]

I'm waiting for someone to moan about the more offensive metafives.