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similarities between two
different ideas.
Metaphors are
usually meant to
create a
likeness or an analogy.
Metaphors are
often compared with
other types of...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
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Metaphors We Live By is a book by
George Lakoff and Mark
Johnson published in 1980. The book
suggests metaphor is a tool that
enables people to use what...
- experience. The
regularity with
which different languages employ the same
metaphors,
often perceptually based, has led to the
hypothesis that the mapping...
- 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...
-
Internet metaphors provide users and
researchers of the
Internet a
structure for
understanding and
communicating its
various functions, uses, and experiences...
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Matryoshka dolls (/ˌmætriˈɒʃkə/ MAT-ree-OSH-kə; Russian: матрёшка, IPA: [mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə] ), also
known as
stacking dolls,
nesting dolls,
Russian tea dolls...
- A nuts**** is the
outer s**** of a nut. Most nuts**** are
inedible and are
removed before eating the nut meat inside. It
covers and
protects the kernel...
- The Ship of Theseus, also
known as Theseus's Paradox, is a
thought experiment about whether an
object is the same
object after having had all of its original...
-
comparing people with the
named animal, as in "he is as sly as a fox", or as
metaphors,
directly naming people as animals, as in "he is a [sly] fox". Animal...
