"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

1. perfect metaphor = doskonała metafora perfect metaphor

2. military metaphor = militarna metafora military metaphor

3. political metaphor = polityczna metafora political metaphor

4. biblical metaphor = biblijna metafora biblical metaphor

5. accurate metaphor = dokładna metafora accurate metaphor

6. culinary metaphor = kulinarna metafora culinary metaphor

Haiku with culinary metaphor.
Nana Djordjadze's film is savory, but "its culinary metaphors are a little too overbearing and its storytelling a bit too fragmentary" (Holden).
In this story, culinary metaphors reveal Celia's discomfort.
But the idea of his marrying Rosaura is roundly criticized, once again by means of a culinary metaphor.
These are Mr. Beckman's culinary metaphors for what he does offer to young people regularly: foreign movies, independent films, quirky shorts, innovative animation.
Its culinary metaphors are a little too overbearing and its storytelling a bit too fragmentary.
It's not been a season for barbecues, but the Met Office now has a new culinary metaphor: this, it told me yesterday, has been a "sandwich summer".
In the zeal to mix culinary metaphors (how about crab and papaya quesadillas?)
However, when the wearer's midriff is flabby, a vivid culinary metaphor is used: muffin-top.
Mr. Gallagher's lawyer, Richard N. Kean, explained the statement with culinary metaphors.

(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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