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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".
There are examples of the Cassandra metaphor being applied in the contexts of medical science, [19] [20] the media, [21] to feminist perspectives on reality, [22] [23] and in politics. [24] There are also examples of the metaphor being used in popular music lyrics, such as the 1982 ABBA song "Cassandra", [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Emmy the Great's ...
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] ... His Acts being seven ages. At first, the ...
The Grammy-winner told iHeartRadio that the song serves as a metaphor for “the idea of being love bombed where someone, you know, rocks your world and dazzles you then kind of abandons you.” 5 ...
Luposlipaphobia – fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Coined humorously by cartoonist Gary Larson for his comic The Far Side. Nihilophobia – fear of nothingness, from Latin nihil and "nothing, none", as described by the Doctor in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Night".
The working title for MacHale and Kandel's project was “Scary Tales” (a pun on "fairy tales"), but in Mathew Klickstein's Slimed!:An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, it was explained ...
This was in turn influential in the naming of Gus Van Sant's 2003 film of the same name, although Van Sant thought a different expression was being referenced. Graffiti artist Banksy , in his 2006 Los Angeles show Barely Legal , included a stuffed elephant painted to match the wallpaper as a literal presentation of the concept.
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 being “terrified ...