"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And when talking about how immersed I became in my online life, I'm tempted to use this language because it provides such handy metaphors.
- Awareness of autism has seeped into the culture enough to make it a handy metaphor.
- Many modern physicists have found in Abbott's novel a handy metaphor for the predicament of our own physicists trying to come to grips with a 10-dimensional universe.
- Sir James M. Barrie's creation has been a handy metaphor for eternal youth and a model of escapism since its first theatrical incarnation in 1904.
- This theater work has taught Ms. Gilligan that "voice" is more than a handy metaphor for academics discoursing on identity.
- If peace spreads and Beirut is rebuilt, will editorialists be able to conjure as handy a metaphor for the South Bronx?
- For the ancient Greek philosopher Cleobulus, for example, interracial procreation provided a handy and benign metaphor for a riddle about day and night.
- Honey is a miraculous sweetener, and it makes a handy metaphor for discoveries and compromises made late in a marriage.
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