Bob, I don't think you should include a bowl of breakfast cereal in your still-life painting. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step.
•The production of
Macbethwent from the sublime to the ridiculous when Lady Macbeth came onstage in an old army uniform.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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