Tag: metaphor

Hall’s Rule of Social Order – #267

11 June, 2012 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

There is a baseball metaphor for everything.   Name a topic and I bet there’s a common baseball related metaphor already.  If there’s not, I bet it’s not hard to come up with one that’s easy to understand. Some examples: Hard times – “Sometimes life throws you a curve ball” Sex – “I just got […]

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Lost in a metaphor

27 October, 2011 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

I’m like a car Once you get me to start I’ll take you near or far Just keep refueling my heart.   Cars are like birds. Achieving speeds so fast Able to make the sharpest turns but if not alert, it crashes into glass.   A bird is like a child They’ll go anywhere without […]

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