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This tag should be used for questions about choosing the right words for the context of your writing. Questions about etymology and grammar are off-topic.
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Are idioms in query letters a bad idea?
I am writing a logline sentence of a query letter for my novel and used the idiom 'cat and mouse' as follows:
A military bioweapons collector is forced to engage in a game of ‘cat and mouse’ with …
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