Sentence examples for stock metaphor from inspiring English sources

When a poet says "The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter and the Bird is on the Wing" (The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam), he is constructing a new metaphor on the foundations of an older, stock metaphor.

can be a literal description of a mundane act in a laundromat setting, a literal description of a symbolic act by a boxer's handler, or a stock metaphor for conceding defeat in any difficult endeavor.

Coleridge regularly attended the Royal Institute lectures "to renew my stock of metaphors".

Coleridge wrote that he attended Davy's famous lectures on the mysteries of electricity and other chemical processes "to enlarge my stock of metaphors".

You sense that, for Gordon, the wrong knickers are both a stock anecdote and a metaphor for the ongoing disconnect she feels between what she wants and what she gets.

(Hat tip to Felix Salmon for the single-stock investing as golf metaphor).

It was very much like a virtual stock market, but apparently, that metaphor wasn't a big enough hit (ha!) with TastemakerX's audience.

The incoherence of stock option reporting rules raises serious questions about the information metaphor as a foundation for either individual rules or the standard setting process.

The psychologist Michael Morris points out that when the stock market is going up, we tend to use agent metaphors, implying the market is a living thing with clear intentions.

That unfortunate metaphor sprang to mind last Thursday when a pack of formerly bullish stock analysts suddenly cooled on the shares of Amazon.com.

"War Room," the Christian-inspirational drama that was the No. 1 box-office hit of the Labor Day weekend, takes the metaphor of its title literally: the first scenes of the film show stock footage of combat.