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  2. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

  3. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]

  4. Category:Metaphors referring to people - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Metaphors referring to people" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  5. What is trypophobia? Here's why some people are terrified of ...

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    Something doesn't have to make you afraid in order to be a phobia either; it can also trigger disgust. "In the case of this phobia, there's fear, there's anxiety, and there's oftentimes disgust ...

  6. Ophidiophobia - Wikipedia

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    Also, Nesse, psychiatrist Isaac Marks, and evolutionary biologist George C. Williams wrote that people with systematically deficient responses to adaptive phobias (e.g. ophidiophobia, arachnophobia, basophobia) are more temperamentally careless and more likely to receive unintentional injuries that are potentially fatal and have proposed that ...

  7. Olivia Rodrigo Recalls Feeling ‘Terrified’ the First Night of ...

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    When PEOPLE caught up with the “Get Him Back!” singer, 21, at the nya EAST red carpet premiere of Netflix's Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour on Friday, Oct. 25, she recalled beingterrified ...

  8. Alex Warren Was 'Terrified to Show People' the 'Real' Him ...

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    Alex Warren continues to strike a chord. If you thought you knew the viral content creator-turned-chart-topping musician who first came onto the scene on social media five years ago, think again ...

  9. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...