Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down157
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-square"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareSkyNTPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoA book cover is designed to entice and grab attention (or more traditionally just protect the contents), not summarise or represent the content. The idiom still stands.
A book cover is designed to entice and grab attention (or more traditionally just protect the contents), not summarise or represent the content.
The idiom still stands.