"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 • ...
(1) use, employ
Kolokacji: 3
2. use as a metaphor = wykorzystanie jako metafora use as a metaphor
3. employ metaphors = metafory zatrudnienia employ metaphors
  • Senate Chamber For dozens of decades, journalists have employed theatrical metaphors to describe proceedings in the Senate chamber.
  • Ogenki Clinic is a comedic hentai that often employed visual metaphors for the doctor's cures.
  • And both Covingtons employ water-as-sacred-fluid metaphors a little too often.
  • Sijo, unlike some other East Asian poetic forms, frequently employs metaphors, puns, allusions and similar word play.
  • Or employ metaphors of ax handles, wagon tongues and the bayonets of German invaders?
  • The group's lyrics on Coexist feature broader diction than on xx and employ simple metaphors of light and darkness, and distance and time.
  • His compositions showed distinction in two ways: unusual and sometimes striking instrumentation, and complex lyrics that usually employed elaborate metaphors.
  • He thinks that future applications of computers can barely be described using today's terminology, and so employs metaphors such as telepathy and teleportation when discussing some of them.
  • For example, English employs metaphors likening time with money, whereas other languages may not talk about time in that fashion.
  • Lunfardo employs metaphors such as bobo ("dumb") for the heart, who "works all day long without being paid", or bufoso ("snorter") for pistol.
(2) mix, draw, switch
Kolokacji: 3
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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