Sentence examples for gross metaphor from inspiring English sources
And let's think about that for a second: Isn't it funny how whenever folks explain why they approve of gay censorship, their rationale always involves some gross metaphor like "shoving it down our throats," "sticking it in everybody's face" or "throwing it all over the room"?
The constant, unrelenting February rain also keeps the toy business chugging/pumping/whatever semi-gross metaphor you prefer: "Our high spot for selling toy stuff is the winter compared to summer," Page said.
While few predicted a Liberal majority was in the offing, the early results from Atlantic Canada suggested some kind of gross red metaphor was gonna be a thing as the Liberals took all four provinces handily.
I believe it's fully justified and here's my theory: the body and the scary, gross things it does are just like the laziest and easiest metaphors for the fears that we have.
"The gross feeder" — that is, the heavy eater — "is a man in the larva state," Thoreau wrote, in one of his body-hating anorexic metaphors.
"The Matrix," an apt metaphor for Web-conquering dot-com entrepreneurs wearing black business casual, was one of 1999's big hits, grossing more than $171 million.
