It's not often that a metaphor literally comes to life.
/snark
But today in connection with the Chris Christie story I saw this sentence in the Wall Street Journal blog.
Upon landing in an adjacent football field, a limo carried Christie about 500 yards to the baseball diamond.
Previous stories had given the distance Christie was driven in a limousine as 100 yards, about the length of...a football field that might adjoin a baseball field, a distance that a military pace covers in exactly one minute. The distance of "about 500 yards" is over a quarter mile, and suddenly an "adjacent field" where a landing would disturb spectators is far enough away so no one would have seen the governor get into a limo.
If the football field where he landed was truly "adjacent" rather than a third of a mile away, then WSJ has moved the goalposts!