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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
1. perfect metaphor = doskonała metafora perfect metaphor
  • One disease is never a perfect metaphor for another.
  • It might have been the perfect metaphor for Panetta's new job.
  • In the meantime, the weather is a perfect metaphor for the proceedings.
  • "I think you look at the Brooklyn delegation and it's a perfect metaphor for what is so wrong with the politics of today," he said.
  • I have come (with no little excitement) to understand that baseball is a perfect metaphor for hope in a democratic society.
  • They said some were fragile and took on oxygen - a perfect metaphor.
  • "We think it's a perfect metaphor for religious liberty," he said.
  • I think war is the perfect metaphor for human life.
  • Actually, I may have invented the perfect metaphor for the whole business!
  • Style without sacrifice - a perfect metaphor for the 90's.
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
(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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