You're recommending a place to eat in New York to the New Yorkers?? Ha! Thanks for the schooling :) The warm evening we were there, almost no one else was, it was really lovely. ... Project Runway glow, which obviously affected my judgment.

Similes are a form of mataphor. He is as strong as an ox. That's a simile. This link may answer all the questions on the topic. http://www.copyblogger.com/metaphor-simile-and-analogy-what%E2%80%99s-the-difference/ Metaphor A

Perhaps there is some irony in asking this, but in what context did you see this phrase?

Hi, OK, I guess 'unfolds' is OK. But I assume you realize that sarcasm and irony are not the same thing? So your idea is, very crudely put by me, that people are speaking ironically and in the course of this they start to speak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) " My two cents " and its longer version " put my two cents in " is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two

OK, so what do you call those kind of phrases? Things that can't be true such as a straight corner etc

It is not even remotely irony to me. CJ

A red headed blond? If that isn't irony that what is it?

Hi, Why don't you go down relax in the dungeons? I'll pop down later for a little chat а deux, as it were. Just between the two of them? a chat а deux, = a mildly humorous way of saying 'an intimate chat between two

A high-end retailer known for selling expensive merchandise (such as Saks or Neiman & Marcus) has a a pair of $1,000 dollar jeans marked down to $300. And an online medium known for selling discounted items (such as eBay) is selling the same