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an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something
"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
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Recent Examples of metaphors
Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.
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Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Use metaphors and success stories to make your points, and keep the content succinct and relevant from a customer view.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Create visual metaphors that explain complex environmental concepts.
—Tina Gada, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
These personal metaphors give meaning to our actions.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Rivers serve as metaphors for transformation and cultural flows, blending histories and connecting individuals to their ancestral roots.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
The author considered surreality innate to life in Latin America, where metaphors and myths frequently drive storytelling.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
The angry gods of embarrassing metaphors smote the president mere minutes into reinterpretation of the historical record, short-circuiting his teleprompter.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 11 Dec. 2024
Your product's or service's actual benefits are likely dramatic enough without resorting to metaphors about releasing wild forces.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Use metaphors and success stories to make your points, and keep the content succinct and relevant from a customer view.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Create visual metaphors that explain complex environmental concepts.
—Tina Gada, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
These personal metaphors give meaning to our actions.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Rivers serve as metaphors for transformation and cultural flows, blending histories and connecting individuals to their ancestral roots.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
The author considered surreality innate to life in Latin America, where metaphors and myths frequently drive storytelling.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
The angry gods of embarrassing metaphors smote the president mere minutes into reinterpretation of the historical record, short-circuiting his teleprompter.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 11 Dec. 2024
Your product's or service's actual benefits are likely dramatic enough without resorting to metaphors about releasing wild forces.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metaphors. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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