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If you were a bat, you’d get the hell out of debt.
I was attending an afternoon meeting some years ago and drove up to a building to join my comrades. The front door of the building was at the end of the parking lot. As I made my way to the entrance, traversing the lot, it was difficult not to notice a gleaming BMW sports car directly across from the entryway. I took a look and then quickly went into the building to join the meeting.
Upon arriving in the meeting room, I became acutely aware that I was not the only one who noticed the imported sports machine. The room had a window that faced the parking lot and the BMW was clearly visible. We discussed the car and mused on how it would handle and what it would feel like to drive.
Abruptly, an older lady, perhaps in her late seventies, who just joined our meeting had a quick look at the car and said, “I bet that thing would go like a bat out of hell”. Her words startled all of us. None of us were expecting to hear those kinds of words from the mild-mannered lady that stood before us.
I have since wondered about where the idiom, “bat out of hell”, comes from. According to Dictionary.com, the expression means:
“Moving extremely fast, as in ‘She ran down the street like a bat out of hell’. This expression presumably…
