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Example sentences for: metaphor

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It is significant because its enormous popularity reflects the public's interest in metaphor based on classical and cultural references understandable only to those steeped in the literature, not to those who, having learned to read, seldom read anything but a dime novel, a popular magazines, or a newspaper.
' Generations of romantics (including the wife of Bath) have interpreted this to mean that love will triumph over war and poverty, even over strict parents and curfews, but this is a fuzzy reading of the military metaphor Vergil intended.
It might even be a reasonably accurate metaphor if we lived in a world where the biggest spender always wins.
It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.
Zidane's "cooler," "more modern," and "more inventive" style of play is supposed to be a metaphor for France's blossoming multiculturalism, but he is reluctant to be a French hero, and French racism runs very deep.