"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

metaphor sustantivo

sustantivo + metaphor

Kolokacji: 7

sports metaphor • desktop metaphor • baseball metaphor • animal metaphor • war metaphor • ...

metaphor + verbo

Kolokacji: 6

metaphor describes • metaphor suggests • metaphor referring • metaphor implies • metaphor abounds • ...

verbo + metaphor

Kolokacji: 6

use a metaphor • mix metaphors • use as a metaphor • employ metaphors • metaphor drawn • ...

adjetivo + metaphor

Kolokacji: 48

apt metaphor • visual metaphor • perfect metaphor • mixed metaphor • central metaphor • ...

Kolokacji: 4

1. apt metaphor = apt metafora apt metaphor

The job, he said, is an apt metaphor for the town.
They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.
We believe that this is the most apt metaphor for electronic media.
It's an apt metaphor for a move into a relative wilderness.
Lauren thought it was an apt metaphor for her entire generation.
In another sense, it is an apt metaphor for the state of the profession at the moment.
But the report found neighborhoods where a stew would be a more apt metaphor.
And that is an apt metaphor for the stock market.
Perhaps volleyball is an apt metaphor for politics, after all.
The more apt metaphor, some suggest, would be a railroad.

2. visual metaphor = wizualna metafora visual metaphor

3. perfect metaphor = doskonała metafora perfect metaphor

4. mixed metaphor = zastosowanie dwóch różnych metafor dające efekt komiczny mixed metaphor

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

preposición + metaphor

Kolokacji: 7

of metaphor • with metaphors • in metaphors • for metaphor • to metaphors • ...

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