metric system, n.Definitions

The Metric system is awful. I wouldn't touch it with a 3.048 meter pole.

The Metric system is a universal system of measurements that threatens to make everything in the world neatly divisible by 10, although its proponents somehow neglected to split our time into centidays and millidays.

The Metric system is a contagion long and bravely resisted by the American people, most of whom still believe that an ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of cure.

The Metric system is the despair of poetry lovers who must now consider that Robert Frost actually had "kilometers to go" before he slept.

The Metric system did not really catch on in the states unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet.

The Metric system is a system designed to get people to enter charity runs. No one would run a 3.1 mile race, but hey, 5 km, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

The Metric system is the bane of history teachers who must tell their awed students that Abraham Lincoln stood 1.93 m in his stocking feet . A contagion long and bravely resisted by the American people, most of whom still believe that an ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of cure.