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Meaning metaphor meaning
What does metaphor mean?
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Synonyms metaphor synonyms
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Topics metaphor topics
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Simple sentences
A metaphor is a pictorial expression.
I thought it was just a metaphor.
Movie subtitles
There's no better metaphor for the relentless shift of global power than the clock.
A metaphor.
Fiery Mountain blocking the path of Tang Seng's company is a metaphor for the difficulties in life.
Now, my metaphor might seem a trifle impertinent. but I think it's very much to the point.
That is where, if you'll excuse the metaphor, young shoots have not yet reached four or five inches.
No, no, that was just my announcement, just a metaphor.
A very pretty mixed metaphor.
Your clever turn of phrase, your use of analogy and metaphor.
I love a really juicy mixed metaphor, Stevens.
I don't know enough about cooking to finish that metaphor.
The town was only meant to be a metaphor anyway.
I was the victim of a metaphor.
But this metaphor.
A metaphor. - Ah.
A daring metaphor, Watson.
The 1 st stage occurs in the schools where, if you'll pardon the metaphor, the sprouts are still very young.
It's a simple metaphor, that's all.
All clear. I was the victim of a metaphor.
But this metaphor. I would say that around me like vultures circling hired killers and police.
An appalling metaphor, Leo, but accurate.
No, it's just a metaphor for how uneasy I am.
This is so out of my field, to use a metaphor from your profession.
We mean Sicily as a metaphor.
Are you sure it isn't time for a colourful metaphor?
Strange comparison. - It's called a metaphor.
The color green as a metaphor.
Yes, it is a metaphor.
Wrong metaphor.
I told him that was a mixed metaphor and he would insist.
Up there in the skies was a metaphor of immortality.
It was your one sporting metaphor, as far as I remember.
If you like, the alchemical principle is to. to form a union of contraries, so that the sexual act is, in a sense, a metaphor for the alchemical conjunction of opposites, the marriage of opposites.
Surrealists use the notion of alchemy as a metaphor for poetic activity.
News and current affairs
The metaphor of war has the singular advantage that it clearly and strongly evokes the intensity of the counterattack that was called for.
Moreover, the metaphor of war constitutes an implicit appeal to intense mobilization, not only by a country that comes under attack, but also by its friends and allies.
But the war metaphor also carries inevitable connotations that, when applied to terrorism, are misleading and counterproductive.
Instead, the war metaphor continues to define the US response and that of several of America's allies.
The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
This is a vivid metaphor for today's world: while the World Bank is caught up in corruption and controversy, China skillfully raises its geopolitical profile in the developing world.
Paul used the human body (corpus in Latin) as a metaphor for society, suggesting that in a healthy society, as in a healthy body, every organ must be preserved and none permitted to die.
In this case, history is not a metaphor.
This contrast could serve as a metaphor for the difference in lifestyles on either side of the Atlantic.
In that sense, the metaphor of war - with its emphasis on military force is - misleading.
The metaphor of war was understandable in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, but creates as many problems as it solves.
We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.
Part of the problem is that expectations had been distorted by a metaphor that described events in short-run terms.
There may be something to this metaphor, but the lesson I take from it is not what others might.
The marriage analogy has become a rather over-used metaphor for Europe's efforts to integrate.
To understand power and its contexts in the world today, I have sometimes suggested the metaphor of a three-dimensional chess game.
The pattern of flying geese is a useful metaphor to explain this idea.
It is an apt metaphor for the situation in which the US and China now find themselves: on a planet in the process of being dangerously warmed by our own runaway progress.
In many ways, the metaphor of empire is seductive.