A few days ago I wrote the following in my work in progress:
[suspicious]"He has his finger on the pulse of the city, even if he's only waiting for it to expire so he can steal its watch"[/suspicious]
...and can't help thinking this sounds familiar (and too funny) to be an original thought. Anyone recognize this phrase or something very like it from an existing work? I ran it through one of those plagiarism checker tools and it came up OK, but the tool in question appears to be for non-fiction works such as school assignments and may not have fiction in its database. Can anyone help?
