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Example sentences for: metaphors

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It is certainly not encouraged in places like The New York Times , also known as the gray lady of journalism, but neither does the Times often mix metaphors.
Like someone who hears a pun and then searches for a story to use it as a punch line, over the years I have collected mangled metaphors, battered idioms, and twisted expressions, always looking for explanations behind the novel usage.
Some readers may know of my involvement with a related work, Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical , and Historical : A Thematic Dictionary [with Frederick G. Ruffner, Gale Research Company, 1982, 1986], an attempt to provide a quick reference guide to what can be termed metaphors, consedering the present context.
Writers have long sought metaphors to capture the conflict of new and old worlds.
And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”