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As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly".[1]"When Hell freezes over" [2] and "A cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place.
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.,
A weather vane in the shape of a flying pig. The phrase "when pigs fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question (the adynaton, and the circumstances to which the adynaton is being applied) will ...
Pages in category "Metaphors referring to birds" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A crow flying across the terrain. The expression as the crow flies is an idiom for the most direct path between two points. [1] [2] Etymology.
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
In 2024, I had all sorts of funky metaphors for the stagnant IPO market, from "bathtub that wasn’t draining" to a tangled garden hose. At a stalled time for IPOs, most of my metaphors were bleak.
In "traditional Chinese fantasy literature" from the late Qing dynasty and before, sentient flying carpets were thought to be "magical monsters" in the same category as lung, qilin, or clouds for heroes to traverse distances with. [7] In Taoism and Taoist art, flying carpets were used as poetic metaphors for the ability of flight xian had. [8]