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an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something
"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
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Recent Examples of metaphors
With his calm demeanor and distinctive baritone, Biggie exhibited a rare talent for painting pictures with his bars, delivering a complex rhyme scheme of double entendres and metaphors that has kept him on the Mount Rushmore of rap for any true connoisseur of the genre.
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Shirley Halperin For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2025
Powerful metaphors shape perception.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
In politics, media, and everyday conversations, metaphors are a shortcut to understanding.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Her father was a scientist and worked for NASA, so her work, including The Body’s Question and Life on Mars, is infused with the cosmos and space and all these metaphors and similes tied to the most mysterious places in the universe.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
Whether explaining a new strategy or company vision, leaders should simplify information using metaphors, analogies and personal anecdotes.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
But therapy in the great outdoors, even with stunning visuals and artful metaphors, can only take a show so far, though it’s greatly helped by Landau’s graceful direction, Melecio Estrella and Bandaloop’s vertical staging and an impressive supporting cast.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Author Tom Robbins, whose novels read like a hit of literary LSD, filled with fantastical characters, manic metaphors and counterculture whimsy, died on Sunday.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
As a result, his works were overflowing with wild-eyed metaphors.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Shirley Halperin For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2025
Powerful metaphors shape perception.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
In politics, media, and everyday conversations, metaphors are a shortcut to understanding.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Her father was a scientist and worked for NASA, so her work, including The Body’s Question and Life on Mars, is infused with the cosmos and space and all these metaphors and similes tied to the most mysterious places in the universe.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
Whether explaining a new strategy or company vision, leaders should simplify information using metaphors, analogies and personal anecdotes.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
But therapy in the great outdoors, even with stunning visuals and artful metaphors, can only take a show so far, though it’s greatly helped by Landau’s graceful direction, Melecio Estrella and Bandaloop’s vertical staging and an impressive supporting cast.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Author Tom Robbins, whose novels read like a hit of literary LSD, filled with fantastical characters, manic metaphors and counterculture whimsy, died on Sunday.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
As a result, his works were overflowing with wild-eyed metaphors.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metaphors. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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