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- noun Plural form of
metaphor .
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Examples
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Battle of the metaphors: is having an infected/insecure computer like having a car with a bad tire that you drive on the highway, endangering everyone around.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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These leftist intellectuals may talk in metaphors of war, but they are no more capable of dealing violence directed against them in a serious way by those trained in its application and accustomed to its ways, than they are of actually building a bridge or making anything with their hands.
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We think dishonestly all the time when we make up works of fiction, when we daydream, when we think in metaphors -- which we do constantly at a basic level of our language.
On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009
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To mix metaphors, is Sweden a Valhalla to them as well? mutterhals
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We think dishonestly all the time when we make up works of fiction, when we daydream, when we think in metaphors -- which we do constantly at a basic level of our language.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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"Speak Now" is peppered with giggles, spoken word bits, sighs and one too many pouring rain metaphors, all meant to underscore Swift's adorableness, which has long been an indisputable matter of record.
Album review: Taylor Swift, "Speak Now" Allison Stewart 2010
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Mr. FARLEY: This new video that he did for his song "Runaway," this short film, one of the central metaphors is really that of a phoenix, you know, a creature that is reborn through fire.
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Mr. FARLEY: This new video that he did for his song "Runaway," this short film, one of the central metaphors is really that of a phoenix, you know, a creature that is reborn through fire.
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Mr. FARLEY: This new video that he did for his song "Runaway," this short film, one of the central metaphors is really that of a phoenix, you know, a creature that is reborn through fire.
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To mix metaphors, is Sweden a Valhalla to them as well? mutterhals
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