noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
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Not surprisingly, dead metaphors as a rule present fewer problems to foreign learners of a language than idioms do.
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This is a dead metaphor in the standard language, and so will attract little notice.
poetic
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That we influence the world around us is not simply a poetic metaphor .
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They do not exhibit the semantic indeterminacy characteristic of poetic metaphors .
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Compared with poetic devices like metaphor , they are probably rather mundane.
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For Kane a poetic metaphor became a literal truth.
■ VERB
become
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Geographical paralysis becomes a bitter metaphor for their entire existence.
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Fire here becomes a metaphor for the suddenness of the event.
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This property is responsible for the hologram becoming a popular metaphor for human memory.
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The debate of butter-side-up versus butter-side-down becomes a metaphor for many of the conflicts in the classroom.
mix
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I have mixed metaphors for all occasions.
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Like the Curate's Egg, though, not everything in this particular garden is brambles, to mix metaphors .
provide
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To draw and write on skin provides its own metaphor of the corporeal and the transcendent.
use
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By using metaphors and similes you allow the readers to associate their own experiences, memories, or connotations.
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We use this metaphor to characterize local authorities' responses to care programming.
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You use two metaphors there, Audley, one financial, one medical.
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The economic and the political are out of kilter; to use a homely metaphor , it is like bike gears crunching.
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On this subject, in 1858, Lord Elphinstone used a significant metaphor .
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To use yet another metaphor , moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking; patterning like painting.
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Of course, Raskin did not use a munitions metaphor .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was a caged bird, to use her own metaphor , that had to break free.
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Through metaphor and symbolism, Thoreau discusses the importance of nature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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That is not a metaphor , it is the plain truth.
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The rule of thumb for making good use of a metaphor is to compare what is said with what is meant.
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There are more ways than one in which a metaphor can mislead.
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There are only so many metaphors any choreographer can come up with for anomie.
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Think of the torturous metaphors and similes that the readers would be spared.
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Various metaphors have illustrated this fact of spiritual life.
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We use this metaphor to characterize local authorities' responses to care programming.