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Meanings of metaphor in English
Usage of metaphor in English
1
Long before Labour lost the election, it lost the war of metaphor.
2
So near yet so far, a metaphor perhaps for his England career.
3
Now for another metaphor, taken from a more complex system of forces.
4
The force of the metaphor in both clauses is substantially the same.
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The functions of simile and metaphor are the same in this respect.
6
Thankfully, on this occasion, Ulster's 'bird' metaphor helped to jumpstart Payne's memory.
7
The whole metaphor, city as body, was clearly getting out of hand.
8
The Last Straw: Kevin McBride is a metaphor for the Irish economy.
9
Theatre is a world of metaphor; of imagination, a forum for debate.
10
Please forgive the questionable choice of metaphor in the last sentence there.
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Observe the metaphor of the houses: I am coming back to it.
12
I meant that as a metaphor for the global sense of things.
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If my water metaphor had failed, there had to be another way.
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It's a metaphor that defines the very character of the Turnbull government.
15
But apart from that the metaphor is a natural and suggestive one.
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Like many of the new writers, they are after metaphor, not content.
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Metaphor through the time
Metaphor across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common