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Some have experiential reference for some people but are obscurely metaphoric for others, like catbird seat vantage point, which is often treated as arcane but which is meaningful to anyone who has seen the way a catbird alights on a tree branch from where the surrounding territory can be surveyed for provender or predators.
Tobin, editor of the Riverside edition, observes in his introduction to the poem that it has "none of the metaphoric genius that makes Shakespeare Shakespeare."
The term's proximate origin remains obscure--some analysts have suggested an association with the world of sport or finance, where activities are indeed governed by an actual daily cycle and where a metaphoric sense could easily have arisen out of the literal one.
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.
Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.
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