literally flying around the back of the bus
October 14th, 2007 by Fitz
From CNN American Morning:
Well, you’ve got to check this one out. It’s a scary video that’s just released. It’s prompting some calls for seat belts on school busses. It shows just how vulnerable kids can be when things go wrong. You see the kids literally being tossed in the air as if they’re on a trampoline. It was after a bus approached a bridge, slammed into the guardrail and then plunged into a ditch below. There you see the video again in slow motion of the kids literally flying around the back of the bus.
(Thanks, Alison)
October 18th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Wow, this is a weird one. In the first bolded section, we have the use of (correct) use of literally smashed right into a simile. After all, the kids were tossed in the air.
The second one is almost correct, and *would* be with the insertion of one word (”kids literally fling around *in* the back of the bus”).
October 20th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
I have done a post about “literally”–I can’t believe there’s a website devoted to this–funny!
March 19th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I prefer the image of children buzzing around the back of a bus. Although school buses do need seat belts.