"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Simpson is known to have spoken of his legal team in such football metaphors.
- Continuing the football metaphor, he said: "Instead, we're going to have the greatest fourth quarter in Presidential history."
- American corporate executives seem convinced that football metaphors convey all the important messages about corporate life.
- (Condoleezza Rice's reliance on football metaphors should be a warning to us all.)
- The old football metaphor for this state of affairs was bell-ringing, as in, for example: 1.
- "The consensus among us is that this is a ground game," he said, using a football metaphor.
- He is fond of using football metaphors, a tendency that has been remarked upon by journalists and political commentators.
- But he cannot "run to daylight," in this year's final football metaphor, until he puts daylight between himself and the past President.
- The football metaphor is of no use to us here, ladies and gentlemen: in order to make progress intelligently, the team needs to be mixed.
- He collected starting pitchers this winter the way Division I schools stockpile scholarship players, to further the football metaphor.
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