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📖 Определения и значения для слова metaphor

📒 a word or phrase used to describe somebody/something else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the us

  • a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life
  • the writer’s striking use of metaphor
  • ‘This vale of tears’ is a metaphor for the human condition.
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