Talk:penny in the fusebox

Judging by the google hits, this is just on the verge of becoming an idiom. The hits are generally of the form "It's like putting a penny in a fuse box -- it works but it's not a good idea," but there are a few, particularly of "penny in the fuse box", which don't see any need to explain the simile, thus giving us room to step in. Here are a couple of bona fide examples:

• http://lists.distributed.net/hypermail/rc5.Jul1998/0142.html
• http://www.pa-newspaper.org/press/2003/Jan%202003/publisher_creates.htm

Note, however, that there are at least four forms for this phrase: Penny in {a, the} {fuse box, fusebox}. The most common appears to be "penny in the fuse box", so I'll move this there. -dmh 17:41, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)