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Example sentences for: metaphors

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Reference to the designated section in Appendix A reveals a brief discussion of the subject of sex-linked metaphors which quite correctly points out that many common metaphors, metonyms, and allusions refer to males— Achilles' heel, before you can say Jack Robinson, Bluebeard, David and Goliath , and many more.
Anyone who claims to fully understand the economic disaster that has overtaken Asia proves, by that very certainty, that he . The truth is that we have never seen anything quite like this, and that everyone--from the country doctors at the International Monetary Fund and the Treasury Department who must prescribe economic medicine to those of us who have the luxury of irresponsibility--is groping frantically for models and metaphors to make sense of this thing.
But the broader point is that if your argument is based on metaphors, you should be prepared to treat those metaphors with respect.
Original animal metaphors are all but obliterated in words that have no reference to animals.
All languages are composed of dead metaphors as the soil of corpses, wrote William Empson.