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In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of ...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy
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