"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

(2) mix, draw, switch

Kolokacji: 3

1. mix metaphors = metafory mieszanki mix metaphors

2. metaphor drawn = metafora narysowany metaphor drawn

3. switch metaphors = metafory zmiany switch metaphors

I told him that he 'spoke coding' with a bloody awful accent which would give him away, and then switched metaphors.
To play the audience like an organ demands a killer sense of timing - or, to switch metaphors, suspense is the art of killing time itself.
To switch metaphors, he had picked up a lemon.
Now I need to switch metaphors on you.
To switch metaphors from fungi to vines, this infrastructure is like a trellis.
Or, to switch metaphors, she is simultaneously a brilliant diagnostician of the political disease of our time and a symptom of it.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, or, to switch metaphors for a moment, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Now someone had taken her - to switch metaphors for a moment - out of her scabbard and everyone was running for cover.
So I abruptly switched metaphors in midstream.

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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