Thanks, everybody. Ray H., perhaps the author intended the mysterious metaphor to go unexplained, one more reminder of how Alaska is a "foreign country." I would think a real home-grown expression up there would have something to do with

what the bold part of the sentence means precisely? It's like going through a tunnel. You go in one side, and you keep going through it, and eventually you come out the other side . The tunnel image (or anything similar) can be used to see the

He was drowned in the raging torrent. His speech was drowned by the rabble. His plea was drowned in/by the clatter of hooves. It seems possible to me that we're confusing "drowned" as a metaphor with " drowned out " as an

What leads us to use "in" when "drowned" is used literally and "in/by" when it is metaphoric? He was drowned in the raging torrent. His speech was drowned by the rabble. His plea was drowned in/by the clatter of

real is "not artificial". true is "not false". your true face takes face as metaphoric for character. It suggests that a person's character has been revealed to be other than what it appeared to be previously. The truth

" all the masses of tossing greenery in the garden" The definition of tossing means "to throw" How do you throw greenery in the garden? Is it some kind of metaphor?

Yes, it is you. Usually I agree with you Alan, but my god. Instead of trying to force the storytelling ... of the characters very well. There are papers written about it, I think, too lazy to find them for you. Yes, well, I too could write a paper

I'd like to metaphorically express to know what happened in the past with visual verbs + the past. Which sounds natural the most? See the past, watch the past or look at the past?

CAN YOU GIVE ME EXAMPLES OF METAPHOR? IF YOU CAN SHOW MW SOME PLEEASE

Hee! I don't think the slime is included in the metaphoric meaning, is it? That gives a whole new meaning to "I feel sluggish"!!! Supermarket announcement: "Clean up in aisle 17! Customer feeling sluggish!!!" CJ