Pictures making your stomach drop is a metaphor for sickness. It's generally not a nice feeling, and it can also be associated with dizziness and tiredness. A "day out" is like a day trip. You go out for the day - you could possibly

Hi Tinanam; It "The president rode into office on a tide of discontent" This is a wonderful metaphor, as aonther poster beautifully explained concerning the physical tides of the oceans and seas on earth. Have you seen surfers on

Hello! I am a university student from Russia. We have to write quite a lot of essays as part of our English course. However, every term we get a new teacher, this is just how the system works, and all teachers are quite different in how they

So, there's a thing on the teevee about Palin's book Going Rouge. Around 400 pages, all of it in her own words, everybody's amazed that she's managed to finish something, etc, etc.  Apparently she'd moved her whole family,

Anything of good quality. That is, it may be used poetically, as a metaphor. I'm not sure about British English.

At 05:12:32 on Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Paul (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): What does the group feel could be the possible connotations of this phrase? My immediate response to that phrase being used by an Indian is that he was referring,

no it's not a metaphor - i'm doing this in English at the moment, example: your love is a rose. (red rose = symbol of love) if someone said - your love is like smoke it's a metaphor because they are telling you that smoke

And smiles are nice, but sure to notice that the spelling is ' similes ', Anon.

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

It comes from William Barrett Travis, the commander at the Battle of the Alamo. How Mr Pedantic uses the reasoning it may not be from there because the Mexicans would then leave is completely nonsensical. Travis drew the line in the sand