When a co-worker recently told me he planned to bring a cactus to our shared office, he assumed I knew this was a metaphor for life's beauty and pain, and a reference to the lyrics of a Jacques Dutronc song.
As a metaphor for the benefits of education, that statement is fine.
In illustration of something under discussion which required the help of metaphor, the editor said: "Land, it's a tough as Tilbury Foster!
"When we speak about rejection experiences in terms of physical pain, it is not just a metaphor – the broken heart and emotional pain really do hurt in a physical way," he said.
" Xia took the old wall of his city, Nanjing, as a metaphor.
" And so it was (Riviera ligure di ponente) NOTES: "The Ship with Three Decks" (Il bastimento a tre piani) from Andrews, 2 and 27, Menton, told by Giuanina Piombo dite La Mova, and by Angelina Moretti Prosperous sea trading, with unusual cargos coming into ports where the merchandise is highly prized, is a metaphor of luck in the popular mind It recurs in diverse folktales and is woven into various plots (cf my no173, from Sicily) In this tale from the Italian Riviera border, the cur
Andy Johns, an early Facebook employee, offers a greater metaphor for this bit of advice: "If a punter/field goal kicker showed up to practice with a new football team and thought 'Crap, all of these guys are bigger and more athletic than me!
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Life magazine, 01-04-63 All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Forget the hashed metaphor.
They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Luckily for you, that's where the metaphor ended.
