Sentence examples for mafia metaphor from inspiring English sources

A Mafia metaphor?

Tom Watson may have pushed his mafia metaphor a tad too far at the committee grilling last week, but the family and its faithful, well-remunerated retainers are what matter most.

Romney also tossed in a mention of Rumpelstiltskin, so maybe either a Mafia metaphor or some sort of weird fairy-tale image?

The whole idea of literary "mafias" is a tired metaphor, Lord knows, but in one respect it's accurate: once American writers have reached a certain level of accomplishment and fame, they take what amounts to a vow of silence about one another's work.

In this sense the books are a metaphor for their subject, the mafia, and its code of omerta, silence.

Mafia, yes.

(See also Mafia).

Mafia hitmen.

The mafia was there.

Metaphor much?

The Sicilian mafia?