"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 • ...

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) describe, refer

Kolokacji: 2

(2) suggest, imply

Kolokacji: 2

(3) abound, come

Kolokacji: 2

1. metaphor abounds = metafora roi się metaphor abounds

As we saw in relation to Gide, even in a secularized philosophy of transgression, metaphors of transcendence abound.
Unfortunate metaphors abound, as when panic turns Philip's armpits into "powerful twin showerheads."
Military metaphors abound in commentary on the Religious Right.
Other metaphors abound.
Religious metaphors abound.
Mellifluous metaphor abounds: "Blackbirds like small priests walked in the silent fields."
Inventive puns and coded metaphors abound, and new words, phrases, and grammatical twists surface each year.
Apt metaphors and similes abound.
The intensity of his gaze on this particular organism summons other complex longings, and botanical metaphors abound as the author lets one narrative strand lengthen and twine with others.
He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound.

2. metaphor comes = metafora przychodzi metaphor comes

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 • ...

preposición + metaphor

Kolokacji: 7

of metaphor • with metaphors • in metaphors • for metaphor • to metaphors • ...

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