A small metal knight helmet tipped on its side beside a potted sapling and a toy lance against a pale green background.

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Uncle Dynamite ‧ 1948

P.G. Wodehouse

He blinked, like some knight of King Arthur’s court, who, galloping to perform a deed of derring-do, has had the misfortune to collide with a tree.

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Our interpretation.

A comic simile about a man blinking in dazed surprise. It pictures a storybook knight galloping off to do something grand, then running straight into a tree. The mock-heroic image makes the dazed blink look both ridiculous and a little sympathetic.

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