In article <[email protected]>,
Timothy Bruening <[email protected]> wrote:

Best of Both Worlds I: Picard vows to the Borg that he will resist them
with his last ounce of strength. Since the Federation uses the metric
system , and has done so for centuries, shouldn't Picard say "Last gram
of strength"?

Idiom usually doesn't change like that. Consider, for instance, "in for a penny, in for a pound," which refers to a currency we (referring to
Americans) haven't used for over 200 years, yet we're still familiar with
the phrase.

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