metaphor, n.All

Metaphor is a linguistic hand-'me-'down in that it represents meaning passed on from an old word to a new thing.

The Metaphor is a transparent veil that permits us to see what it covers.

Metaphor is 'the way human beings consolidate and extend their ideas about themselves, their relationships and their knowledge of the world.

Metaphor is a way of thought long before it is a way with words, influencing our attitudes, beliefs, and actions in surprising, hidden, and often oddball ways.

I hate people who use metaphors that are physically impossibleThey make my blood boil

Metaphor is an abuse of speech and the the use of metaphor is a kind of lying.

Metaphor is, in fact, astonishingly precise. Nothing is as exact as an apt metaphor.

A Metaphor is a fossil that indicates an archaic stratum of the trial of theoretical curiosity.

Metaphor is a threat to the political status quo.