Sentence examples for false metaphor from inspiring English sources

It relies on the false metaphor that household budgeting is the same as budgeting for a nation with its own sovereign currency.

Don't dismiss it as a good but false metaphor.

Hitchens, like Sontag, also wrote to correct false impressions, cultural delusions, false metaphors and truisms about "battling cancer" and "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger".

If you're like me you might use (false) metaphors or phrases like, "I'm stuck".

Being American must be about freeing ourselves from the myths, lies and false metaphors -- consume!" "choose!" "spend!"-- that are eating away at our ability to function as a society in every area of life.

"Business as warfare" is a false and reckless metaphor, but it would be equally foolish to ignore the trends Smith sees affecting his trade.

But when it is combined with the false "household budgets" metaphor, it looks like a big problem that needs to be solved through harsh austerity and cutting of the social safety net.

In films, books, music and television and on the social media networks, we have rethought gender roles, and the old virgin versus slut metaphor rings false, if it ever was true.

Brushing off everything that is false or disturbing as "metaphor" or "misinterpretation" just isn't going to cut it.

The metaphor is a false one, because Ponzi schemes leave nothing to the investors.

But the metaphor of democracy is false regarding culture.