(Conceptual) Metaphor (.net) Figurative language resource online

Bush’s surge protector on fritz
ChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 7 hours ago
Yet the search goes on, in this country obsessed with hookups and breakups, for the right relationship metaphor to describe our deadly embrace of Iraq. ...

GOP Flag-Burning, Metaphorically Speaking
Washington Post, DC - 7 hours ago
By Marc Fisher. For decades, the cliche about Virginia's growth wars has had Republicans pushing for unbridled growth and Democrats fighting to halt sprawl. ...

Broken Your Resolution Already?
Business Portal 24 (press release), Germany - 8 hours ago
Metaphor is right at the heart of how people think, which means that changes made at a metaphoric level fit you perfectly and stay changed, for good. ...

Richard Jones' poetry called `deceptively simple'
Kalamazoo Gazette, MI - 10 hours ago
A younger reader, who may miss the message of a more metaphorical poet, will find Jones proves it's all right to be direct with the message. ...

Canadian Cow Conundrum
Western Standard- Shotgun Blog, Canada - 13 hours ago
To Albertans, that is his metaphor for keeping our money flowing from Alberta to his province and others. I would like to drop the metaphor and talk about ...

‘The rhythm is too crass for a metaphor to work its music into it’
Daily News & Analysis, India - 16 hours ago
The city’s rhythm is too crass for a metaphor to work its music into it. Bombay and I is a weird couple. No love. Lots of sex. ...

Pamplona tactic works as a business metaphor
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Jan 12, 2007
But, in a more general sense, he is using running with the bulls at Pamplona as a metaphor for the workplace in general and a mechanism for providing ...

A metaphor we don't need
Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY - Jan 11, 2007
Let us hope they are swifter with rebuilding than they were with renovation, lest the late O'Neil Building becomes a metaphor for all of downtown ...

The man behind the metaphor
Business Standard, India - Jan 11, 2007
Not content, his grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, felt drawn to find the “true Man” behind the Metaphor. The result is “Mohandas”, an important critique, ...

TEACHER GARBA AS A METAPHOR
Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria - Jan 9, 2007
IF Joe Layode (Teacher Garba in the now rested popular TV soap Village Headmaster) died at 79, despite the insistence of United Nations Children’s Fund ...