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• s  expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
  a metaphorical expression
  metaphoric language

• But if Biden stupidly loaded a metaphoric gun and pointed it at his forehead, he had help in pulling the trigger.
• And while it's the ultimate journalistic clich to quote a cabdriver, I can't resist this one: on the Saturday before the election, I attended a large and metaphoric Mousavi rally .
• The metaphoric implications of this career are--like those in Richard Ford's recent Independence Day, about a real estate agent who has lost his own place in the world--a bit over .

• metaphorical

News & Articles

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• Inquiring Minds Camp makes learning fun
  Samantha Stone, a fifth grader, uses the pressure of her hands to smash two Starburst candies together to illustrate how metaphoric rock is formed by heat and pressure.
  June 22, 2013 - The Glasgow Daily Times

Quotes

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• Bryan Fuller in Canada.com
  At its heart, this is a fairy tale,Fuller explained. "We're using the style of a fairy tale to tell these thematic, metaphoric stories."
• Milan Kundera in AlterNet
  But as Kundera says here in his defense of "thinking novels," novelistic thought "does not proclaim truths; it questions, it marvels, it plumbs; its form is highly diverse: metaphoric, ironic, hypothetic, hyperbolic, aphoristic, droll, provocative,...
• Mike Shinoda in Kykernel.com (subscription)
  Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda said in reference to the album title, "Don't take that at face value. There are layers of meaning; most metaphoric. It's a reference to the Doomsday Clock, the Apocalypse, a metaphor for death and rebirth - but it...