Cracking Concepts #11: His tongue wrote a cheque
“His tongue wrote a cheque that his body couldn’t cash.”
Think of a character about whom this could be said.
What do they claim to be able to do that is way beyond their capacities?
Are they capable of proving wrong the doubters?
Or is the lesson, as it is for Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, that the aspirations were just delusions?
If their dreams are to be shattered, how can their endeavour be rewarded in other ways?