Apr 11, 2011

Get poetic! A metaphor.

A flat screen with rabbit ears.

Meaning: Impressive form belying vacuous content and shoddy quality; a poser.

Use it: With his lumberjack beard, plastic-rimmed glasses and skinny jeans, Conor looked like a genuine hipster. But his exceptionally bad taste in music and secret Starbucks habit proved him to be just a flat screen with rabbit ears.

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