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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 4
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) apt, appropriate, fitting, unfortunate
Kolokacji: 4
(2) visual, good, favorite, bad, better, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(3) perfect, military, political, biblical, accurate, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(4) mixed, sexual, biological
Kolokacji: 3
(5) central, cultural, famous
Kolokacji: 3
(6) extended, poetic, musical
Kolokacji: 3
(7) powerful, useful, potent
Kolokacji: 3
(8) common, literary
Kolokacji: 2
(9) new, conceptual, spatial, different
Kolokacji: 4
(10) obvious, dominant
Kolokacji: 2
(11) vivid, colorful, resonant, brilliant
Kolokacji: 4
1. vivid metaphor = żywa metafora vivid metaphor
  • You may, if it lifts your mood, curse flamboyantly, using vivid rural metaphors.
  • The album featured his easily recognizable voice and unique style, rich in imagery and vivid metaphors.
  • Using a vivid metaphor that acknowledged the scariness of the enterprise, she explained, "We have to find the courage to take off our emotional clothes."
  • The whole becomes a vivid metaphor for a global community, not a private rite.
  • There was an energy in those apt and vivid metaphors that went like champagne to his anaemic head.
  • The most vivid metaphor was used by George Bush, answering a question about the homeless.
  • "It might as easily have been simply a vivid metaphor for our present predicament."
  • Using vivid metaphor, the members referred to themselves as "sleepers in the cave" (Rasail 4th, p. 18).
  • The author uses a vivid metaphor to describe what happens next.
  • "Brutal Imagination" maps the construction and deconstruction of this phenomenon in vivid metaphors.
2. colorful metaphor = barwna metafora colorful metaphor
3. resonant metaphor = donośna metafora resonant metaphor
4. brilliant metaphor = błyskotliwa metafora brilliant metaphor
(12) elaborate, mere, theatrical
Kolokacji: 3
(13) striking, wonderful, poignant
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + metaphor
Kolokacji: 7
of metaphor • with metaphors • in metaphors • for metaphor • to metaphors • ...

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