Perhaps Goal post are an inaccurate analogy when depth of the trench needed to get all the water to flow out would be better... Dredge Depth Date or New Low Date or Depth Date.
Why stress so much over building new intricate metaphors? When you can just use "draining the swamp" and "moving the goalpost" - both quite accurate already.
If you have to sit and take the time to think of new metaphors just so you can parse what's going on, you ought to ask yourself why.
Spot on. Maybe the real draining of the swamp are the goalposts we moved along the way
Perhaps Goal post are an inaccurate analogy when depth of the trench needed to get all the water to flow out would be better... Dredge Depth Date or New Low Date or Depth Date.
Why stress so much over building new intricate metaphors? When you can just use "draining the swamp" and "moving the goalpost" - both quite accurate already.
If you have to sit and take the time to think of new metaphors just so you can parse what's going on, you ought to ask yourself why.
The quality of the best is proved with the rejected options. Just musing before falling asleep.