Significados de homely metaphor em inglês

That high claim is illustrated by a very homely metaphor.

Bean was familiar with that homely metaphor.

Grenville, using a more homely metaphor, averred that the German princes turned towards England as an inexhaustible milch-cow.

If I might use a very homely metaphor, sportsmen train retriever dogs to bring their game without ruffling a feather.

"The Spanish honey," to use once more old Landgrave Philip's homely metaphor, had done its work, and the unfortunate victim was already entrapped.