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Example sentences for: metaphors

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I am not sure that anyone has attempted their documentation, but it is well known that an enormous number of clichés, idioms, metaphors, and other expressions used in everyday contemporary speech and writing derive from the writings of Shakespeare and other contributors to the imagery and poetry of the language.
So its leaders have begun to play down the war metaphors.
Karen Marcus, Chairwoman of the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, issued a directive at a meeting in June 1992 (evidently a good vintage year for mixed metaphors) in which she said,
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.
In an interview with the Financial Times of London, Madeleine Albright said Thursday she had run out of metaphors to describe the state of the Middle East peace process.