"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

1. visual metaphor = wizualna metafora visual metaphor

2. good metaphor = dobra metafora good metaphor

3. favorite metaphor = metafora ulubieńca favorite metaphor

4. better metaphor = lepsza metafora better metaphor

5. bad metaphor = zła metafora bad metaphor

Too bad the metaphor does nothing to help solve My, our problem.
It's not a bad metaphor for the story of Japanese economic policy in recent years.
Not a bad metaphor for what needs to happen, and what already is happening, to ballet.
Baseball is a bad metaphor for his point.
In short, the information superhighway, font of a thousand bad metaphors, is already here.
Chameleon fighting, come to think of it, is not a bad metaphor for Malagasy politics.
They eventually go to the doctor, where bad metaphors are exchanged.
But that was a bad metaphor from the start, and looks worse as time goes by.
"I don't think it's such a bad metaphor," said Judy, also smiling.
Sorry, it was a pretty bad metaphor, I guess.

6. great metaphor = wielka metafora great metaphor

7. religious metaphor = religijna metafora religious metaphor

8. handy metaphor = przydatna metafora handy metaphor

(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

(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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