If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.
Eva StachniakTags: weak metaphor tree goat empress winter-palace
That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?
Antonia MichaelisTags: love literature trust metaphor
What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
Robert McKeeTags: time story storytelling metaphor
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert FrostThe humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: metaphor
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.
Sophie KinsellaDid you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.
Neal ShustermanTags: simile fish metaphor perfect perfectionism suspicion suspicious
The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.
Jack HeathTags: metaphor
The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment. Their roots are entangled too tenaciously in the surrounding soil for a clean extraction to be feasible. The conclusion to which I accordingly come is that we are left with no option but to declare those provisions as a whole to be constitutionally invalid on account of their objectionable overbreadth.
John DidcottTags: law metaphor south-africa imprisonment constitutional-law south-african-law severability
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