metaphor
Example Sentences
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The unlikely diplomat trying to end Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945 speaks in golfing metaphors and long asides about the nature of capital markets.
One might as well conjecture that 1939’s “The Women” was a metaphor for the Nazi invasion of Poland.
Is that a metaphor for life right now?
From Salon
There is an interesting metaphor here for our world today: social media as the outlet for people who have suffered brain damage.
From Los Angeles Times
He plays Matt as if the character were a manifestation of “the old devil sea,” one of the refrains of a play that finds maritime metaphors for all that is uncontrollable in human life.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
