Whoever uttered “It’s raining cats and dogs” for the first time found a catchy way to convey anarchy in the sky. Shakespeare’s green-eyed jealousy must have been brilliant the first time it was uttered in the Globe, but “green with envy” has gone around the Anglophone globe so many times it’s lost all color. In today’s magazines (Wired being one of them), “Holy Grail” is a favorite. The problem is, it’s more medieval than modern.
