that floating deadline moving around each time we are getting close did lost its literal meaning and may be refered more as "sword of Damocles" that a dead line.
For a hodler, watching China FUDgasms is like being crucified on a procrustean bed of gordian knots cleft by the sword of damocles in the depths of the augean stables.
That's probably the biggest quantity of metaphores in one sentence that Bitcointalk has ever seen. Wow.