as in analogy
an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something
"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
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Recent Examples of metaphor
Okay, that’s enough of the racing metaphor, don’t want to beat a dead horse.
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Josh Brown and Sean Russo, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The artist has described works like this one as metaphors for the violence of colonialism in her home country.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026
Ebel even alternates between hockey and baseball metaphors.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 4 May 2026
All the Rest is steeped in metaphors and imagery that evokes those spaces.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2026
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Josh Brown and Sean Russo, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The artist has described works like this one as metaphors for the violence of colonialism in her home country.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026
Ebel even alternates between hockey and baseball metaphors.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 4 May 2026
All the Rest is steeped in metaphors and imagery that evokes those spaces.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for metaphor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metaphor
analogy
Noun
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At one point, Lennon was musing about his belief in reincarnation, and enumerating some of his past lives and identities, when Ono made a blunt analogy.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Many of those players were as tough as ring-shank nails, to borrow another carpentry analogy.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 May 2026
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“Metaphor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metaphor. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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