They are the epitome of in-one-ear-and-out-the-other , which was my mother 's trope for a failure to connect .
它们就是一个耳朵进，一个耳朵出的缩影，我妈妈总是用这句比喻来形容连接失败。
Pythagoras believed the souls of poets passed into swans , a fitting entombment that turns the tattered phrase " poetry in motion " into a truly lyrical trope .
