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Meanings of metaphoric in English

Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.

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Usage of metaphoric in English
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What was that metaphoric quagmire about sleeping in tents and buying undies?
Bare Bones
2
What would be better than a park full of metaphoric apple trees?
Ebony
3
I didn't point out the number of metaphoric lines Slidell had just crossed.
Bare Bones
4
That is, the branch is an actual and metaphoric Faraday cage.
Wired
5
I am investigating the sculptural and metaphoric nature of 'kite-essence'.
The South African
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I do not know how much of this is metaphoric, and how much literal.
Arcanum Unbounded
7
Frederick's nerves were in a state of tension, not in a mere metaphoric sense.
Atlantis
8
Ted's injuries were both metaphoric and not at all so.
Gutshot straight
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If he is forcibly incorporated he dies a metaphoric death.
The unincorporated man
10
A story of good tidings, sometimes true, sometimes metaphoric.
Solomon's oak: a novel
11
To the metaphoric railway to the cyber physical system.
Wired
12
The feral hogs fill a similarly metaphoric role, but for citizen-level debate-bothsides of it.
Wired
13
But let us stick to your metaphoric melting pot.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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The ancients were not being metaphoric when they referred to "illumination."
Jitterbug Perfume
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In general, the language appears to me too metaphoric; especially as used by all the characters.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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ITALY was yesterday counting the cost, literal and metaphoric, of a spectacular referendum flop on Sunday.
The Irish Times
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