know your audience?

Dec 04, 2015 23:15

Fri Dec 4 23:15:47 EST 2015

Heard tonight on Radio Canada "As It Happens":"Terrorism is a multi-headed Hydra."
-- Ralph Goodale, (Canadian) Minister of Public Safety 2015/12/04
Aren't all hydras multi-headed? If you don't think your audience knows that, you probably shouldn't be using that word to begin with.

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