Talk:change like seasons

RFD discussion: March–June 2022

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change like seasons

(Created and instantly RFD'd) Sorry if this comes off like a silly circus stunt but I wanted to know what others think about this kind of simile. I've asked in the tea room (Wiktionary:Tea_room/2022/March#to_change_like_seasons, @DCDuring), but not too many people have chimed in. (My nomination is not a vote) — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 18:55, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

What would the alternative be? add the information to "seasons"? I think having similes is pretty standard, if that's the way the phrase usually is. Vininn126 (talk) 19:02, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Maybe we can escape our entry-quality problem by adding more headings like "Similes". DCDuring (talk) 20:30, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

You need to do some more legwork and find references in other dictionaries. Nothing in Lexico. DonnanZ (talk) 13:32, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

This form sounds a bit "off", as DCDuring said in the Tea Room; if kept, the lemma should perhaps be change like the seasons. As to whether to keep the underlying simile, I'm not sure. Obviously, on one end of the spectrum we don't want just any comparison any three people have ever made ("corrupt / stupid / etc like [insert politician's name here]", etc), but on the other end we have kept at least some of the most common ones, like hot as hell. Possibly we're stuck evaluating these case-by-case (and evincing little enthusiasm for that). - -sche (discuss) 17:54, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

• Keep as change like the seasons; redirect this entry there (just rename it). "To be clear, King did not think that black Americans needed to stand pat and wait for their conditions to change like the seasons." Facts707 (talk) 07:58, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Probably keep. It seems quite common, and the definition is not like seasonal change: seasons do not change "quickly ... and without a rationale", but very slowly, for reasons of biology and astronomy! Equinox ◑ 20:44, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

• RFD-kept. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 03:11, 4 June 2022 (UTC)