metaphor **

Over the past 20 weeks I've come to see running as a metaphor for life.

Of course in this world family was more than simply metaphor.

That could have been a metaphor for his former team, as well.

I see this book as a metaphor for our times.

Even this part of the metaphor should not be taken too far.

That story has to be a metaphor for something else.

"You are using some kind of metaphor that I cannot understand."

Rather, think of the numbers as a metaphor for what is heard.

"This is a metaphor for the big chance you take coming here."

I used to take it as a kind of metaphor.

He in fact used a number of other traditional metaphors.

Its story is, in more ways than one, a metaphor for an end to the old and the beginning of the new.

What it came down to was, we had to find metaphors.

"I see it as a metaphor for what people go through."

"So the going home is a kind of a metaphor for starting over."

And clearly in 1971, the film was a metaphor for the society as a whole.

"Is this some kind of metaphor for me to figure out?"

"And a place at the table is a very good metaphor for that."

It's a metaphor for a city whose people work best under pressure.

"And suddenly that seemed like the metaphor for the whole thing."

As a matter of fact, this metaphor works on many levels.

"I should have known better than to try a sports metaphor with a man."

But the business metaphor has more going for it than that.

So she would bring him questions: Does that metaphor work?

People like to use computer metaphors now, but that's all wrong.