Couldn't we just skip a step, and - well, to mix animal metaphors, make sure the squirrels sleep with the fishes directly?

-surely one of the least apropos animal metaphors ever used in professional sports.

He makes good use of Zulu legends, animal metaphors and exotic tribal praise-names.

Professor Amy Hungerford saw no consistent system to the animal metaphor.

In the Introduction, Off explains the animal metaphors.

"I thought he would have used a different animal metaphor," Senator Lieberman said in an interview.

Sorry to use all these animal metaphors, but Painter was like an animal.

They were based on animal metaphors.

He also conjures animal metaphors for anger that make them sound as if they belong in a display case.

Original animal metaphors are all but obliterated in words that have no reference to animals.