Words similar to metaphor

Example sentences for: metaphor

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Scalia as regressive; balls as metaphor; Clarence Thomas as ventriloquist's dummy.
The lost metaphor in canard is a duck, from a French expression vendre un canard á moitié `to half-sell a duck.
coconut or coconut head `noun, derogatory slang a black person who adopts white cultural characteristics .. The metaphor is based on the coconut's brown exterior and white interior.
Alan Roper) is the patient; "fixing" it is curing the patient; "building a better watch" is developing new medical techniques if you really torture the metaphor.
Finally, a bit exasperated, I blurted out what I thought would be the metaphor that would settle the issue, saying, “If you want to make a penny, you've got to spend a penny!”