"[Alfred Hitchcock’s] mind is like a threshing machine, chomping out ideas as we walk, and at meals, ideas every minute."

— Harrison, Joan (1907-1994)


Date
1999
Metaphor
"[Alfred Hitchcock’s] mind is like a threshing machine, chomping out ideas as we walk, and at meals, ideas every minute."
Metaphor in Context
...“but [Alfred Hitchcock’s] mind is like a threshing machine, chomping out ideas as we walk, and at meals, ideas every minute.”
Provenance
Contributed by Suzanne Morgen; searching "mind is like a machine" in GoogleBooks
Date of Entry
11/26/2009

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.