"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) use, employ

Kolokacji: 3

1. use a metaphor = użyj metafory use a metaphor

It may even be impossible to think about time without using metaphor.
He also has used such a metaphor to talk about his sometimes wandering campaign.
But she is not the only one using martial metaphors on this subject.
Other countries also use metaphors drawn from their local game in discussing politics.
He used a metaphor to argue that she would not prevail.
"Let us not use metaphors like "dead earnest" We have had quite enough of death."
Often he will use metaphor: You know what it's like, doc?
Using the same form, metaphors, and style as Burke, she turns his own argument back on him.
We've also been working on trying to use metaphors.
Instead, they used metaphors, often vulgar, to describe what the cold could do.

2. use as a metaphor = wykorzystanie jako metafora use as a metaphor

3. employ metaphors = metafory zatrudnienia employ metaphors

(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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