can you give me a example of a metaphor? Lawyers are sharks. The Johnson twins are clowns in class. Her husband was a rock during her illness. What he said was music to my ears. Luke is an open book. A second chick is an insurance policy for

metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two things, saying that one is the other. example: She is a sun that brightens my day. comparison between sun and she

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can you give me a example of a metaphor?

Reminds me of a similarly mixed metaphor in a short verse by the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands

could you give me expals of metaphor andsmiles

metaphor for 'He liked the smell of pastries.'

It is a metaphor -- two metaphors, in fact. (Note the spelling metaphor .) It doesn't make sense out of context, of course, but in the right context it could be meaningful. CJ

a debenture is one of those clever 'derivative' loans, which have to be repaid. sometimes the borrower who issues the loan (like AIG) hasn't the quality they were meant to have and have more dubious integrity than joe public 'used

Hi, what are the missing words to these metaphors? " as funny as a _crutch __?" "as quick as a _ flash/wink _?" I don't hear this much any more. Clive