One disease is never a perfect metaphor for another.

It might have been the perfect metaphor for Panetta's new job.

In the meantime, the weather is a perfect metaphor for the proceedings.

"I think you look at the Brooklyn delegation and it's a perfect metaphor for what is so wrong with the politics of today," he said.

I have come (with no little excitement) to understand that baseball is a perfect metaphor for hope in a democratic society.

They said some were fragile and took on oxygen - a perfect metaphor.

"We think it's a perfect metaphor for religious liberty," he said.

I think war is the perfect metaphor for human life.

Actually, I may have invented the perfect metaphor for the whole business!

Style without sacrifice - a perfect metaphor for the 90's.