metaphor

But, Begley says, it may be time to trade in the hard-wired metaphor for a less misleading one.

Once again he accused the West of being unfair to Russia, bringing back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear.

The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.

The scene must be a metaphor for sex, because really who does any of this?

Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”

To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as.

Your correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.

"To say that the brute has awakened in a man is not a mere metaphor always," he went on presently.

The musician not showing any visible appreciation of the managers metaphor, Perkins immediately proceeded to uncock his eye.

By a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.

To carry out your metaphor of the tree, the graft cut from the parent stock must bear fruit for itself.