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This category contains English-language snake idioms. ... Pages in category "Metaphors referring to snakes" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total
The anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history.. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so ...
Metaphors referring to snakes (1 C, 4 P) T. ... Pages in category "Metaphors referring to animals" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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".
The snake marks the third animal species named after Ford. He also inspired the name of an ant, called Pheidole harrisonfordi, and a spider, Caledonia harrisonfordi. (Getty)
There are appearances of the phrase "forked tongue" in English literature, either in reference to actual snakes' tongues, or as a metaphor for untruthfulness, such as a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, who died in 1626: "And he hath the art of cleaving.
Hence the snake eating its tail is an accepted image or metaphor in the autopoietic calculus for self-reference, [30] or self-indication, the logical processual notation for analysing and explaining self-producing autonomous systems and "the riddle of the living", developed by Francisco Varela. Reichel describes this as:
In Brazilian Portuguese, especially in the historical context of WWII, quando cobra fumar ("when a snake smokes"), which has since reversed meaning, ...