analogy

Under the circumstances, this analogy is a poor one, maybe even inappropriate, but that doesn’t make it less true: What Mayor Bowser and the District need is a “bad cop.”

Football analogies aside, the immediate challenge facing Reeves is the size of the gap in the public finances.

"It was the island of lost boys - I'm now 59 and I only just resonate to that analogy."

"This is a really dumb analogy and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie The Gorge?"

He uses the analogy of gambling in a casino: "The more you play, the more you lose."