ReBuS (Looks Even Worse Than It Really Is!)
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What's the rebus, here?
bLoW
HintTwo letters in the word are, in a significant way, different from the other two letters in the word. Identify and describe that difference and you might get the rebus.
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Answer
blow out of proportion
The letters "L" and "W" are upper case and the letters "b" and "o" are lower case. That is abnormal and, therefore, "out of proportion" for the normal spelling of a word.
"Blow out of proportion" is an idiom meaning to behave as if something that has happened is much worse than it really is.
Example of use: "BBjr has taken the position that rebuses using full sentences is a question that some people completely blow out of proportion when compared to rebuses with no supporting data or "story".
Origin of use : Probably a variant of "making a mountain out of a molehill" by use of the definition of "blow" as "exaggeration" or "puffery".
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MysteriousLight   
Mar 30, 2011
| I reviewed this teaser and it took me a while to find out what it was, but I got it... After a while... Yaa...  |
BadBunnee02 
Mar 30, 2011
| Thanks for the visit and the comment, ML.
You said it "took you a while" to derive the answer.
Is that not good? Should not rebuses pose that kind of teaser?
If it were (more-or-less) just a task of pedantic, step-by-known-step, problem-solving characteristic of such as the cryptography, logic, math, probability, science, and other categories here, then it might be less of a challenge.
Rebus-writing and rebus-solving requires what I call the "creative leap". Often that "leap" is neither readily evident nor easily attainable.
Consider yourself fortunate to have been able to do it, even though it "took you a while"*.
*Now ... THERE is another good "in the rough"** rebus possibility.
**(and another).
Why not "give them a try"*** and see if you can sneak it past the editors.
*** (need I continue??).  |
BadBunnee02
Mar 30, 2011
| More to ML.
I just visited your posted teasers. Liked the two riddles very much and gave them high marks.
Especially liked the "stinky" one. Required a bit of the "creative leap" but I finally got it.
And (interesting coincidence) I'm meeting in a couple hours with a CAD draftsperson about some drawings for a new dart I'm working on. I noticed you have an interest in such (engineering, drawing ... maybe darts?).
Again, thanks for the comments and your teaser postings.
BBjr  |
xdbtcp 
Apr 04, 2011
| Good rebus - what is worser?  |
BadBunnee02
Apr 04, 2011
| A "not-so-good" rebus? |
SUPD200
Jul 19, 2011
| i did not get this one
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kittygirl19 
Sep 06, 2011
| kiss ur hand 5 time than post this on 9 teasers and look under your pillow for an ipad |
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