"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If we engage the boxing metaphor, Book 1 is a dizzying storm of uppercuts.
- Once again, the boxing metaphor applies.
- "But I really don't like the nose part," she said of the descriptions of a Barkin feature that has actually inspired some writers to boxing metaphors.
- Patriots running back John Stephens used boxing metaphors to describe the attitude of the New England team before this game.
- The few that we still publish stretch the boxing metaphor for jokes that have nothing to do with boxing.
- Roy, that boxing metaphor has made my eyes bleed.
- If the sport of politics leans toward boxing metaphors, Mr. Maloney, the experts said, is not yet down for the count.
- The boxing metaphor he has used is appropriate and comes naturally.
- Meaning, to go back to a boxing metaphor, Mr. Curry, bloodied but still standing, is entering the final round in need of a knockout to win.
- In this excerpt from the article, the novelist uses one of his famous boxing metaphors to describe why he is drawn to spare, stripped prose:
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