When I come across a new metaphor, one that stretches my understanding, I feel cold.
It's obviously impossible to predict which, if any, of these new metaphors will catch on.
But maybe the letter would bring evidence of a new metaphor, something vivid and powerful and true.
Mr. Forbes even offered a new metaphor for the American tax system.
"I urge you to search for some new metaphors."
As it happens, a new metaphor has arisen just in time to fill the breach.
They take iconic and commonplace elements from modern material culture to create new social metaphors.
He does so by beginning a new metaphor, wholly separate from the wolves and sheep one of the previous verse.
Are crimes against children becoming a new metaphor for universal evil?
"Now it's time to throw everything out and find entirely new metaphors."