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Still, Mr. Klima is hardly original in applying the game metaphor to a geopolitical hot spot.

That phrase 'stalked me personally' is a very important turning point, where he changes the term from metaphor to a specific accusation of illegal activity".

Even when forced to cast a "clothespin vote" (go explain that metaphor to a washer-dryer generation that has never seen a clothesline), we have a way to ease the pain of choice.

But John Lackey, the Boston starter, bettered him, getting help from his bullpen in setting down Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder with two on in the eighth — making for an easy metaphor to a power failure that hit the ballpark in the second inning.

Decentralisation demands accountability, and the new boss's most urgent job would be to transform India's corporate culture so that officials all the way down to the village administrator embraced the style of governance handed down from the top.Getting thereIt may seem callous to apply a Wall Street metaphor to a process as disruptive as economic reform.

"It was like this volcano of fun energy," she said, "and the lava came away in the form of these shoes, to extend the metaphor to a place it should never have gone". Ms. Jones took the shoes and, because they're sneakers, ran.

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Furthermore, the comparison and contrast of the Chinese and English editions of the party newspaper takes corpus research of metaphors to a new level by exploring how the same party ideology and political agenda are framed for two different audiences.

The startup uses a gardening metaphor to represent a student's journey — each Mem you learn is a plant, your total sum knowledge is a garden, etc.

This term uses a spatial metaphor to express a divide between the "inner" world of thought and the "external" world.

It was an extraordinary metaphor to chose; a euphemism which was bound to obscure further exactly what the president had in mind.

(Nothing like a ball-in-hole sports metaphor to turn a lady's head).

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