That's a strange metaphor - their eyes would glaze over and their ears would close up.
It's a beautiful metaphor - whenever the mother puts the cold cream on, but she loses that, she misses it.
One, this is not a time to take -- to use the metaphor -- take our foot off the accelerator here.
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The entire debate over the terminology might look to a marketing practitioner like an Ivory Tower nitpicking but it is an important one because metaphor-based terms rely on our understanding of the underlying concepts to guide our actions.
Having established the metaphor of pre-1914 Europe ( see here) I will stick with it.
Estelle Morris may regret using the political world's favourite metaphor about A-levels - that they are the "gold standard" which "mustn't be devalued".
Windows Phone and the forthcoming Windows 8 interface, for example, use a very flat tile-like metaphor.
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For years I have used the metaphor of a two-sided coin to understand the strengths and weaknesses of people.
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Information design gurus have tried for years, mostly unsuccessfully, to help users organize their data in a better way than the file-and-folder metaphor dreamed up at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
Metaphors, to use an overused metaphor, are a double-edged sword: sometimes they clarify, sometimes they confuse.
"Trains have so long symbolized hope, freedom and power -- what better metaphor could there be to represent our struggle and our assimilation into mainstream American life, " West said.
It is too soon to say that the "reset" -- or, to use a broader metaphor, the upgrading of Italy's cultural, political and economic software -- will fail again.
The instant-on and touch metaphor makes it very easy to get information you want.
And the metaphor is apt because the trigger -- well-designed triggers create a huge incentive for Congress not to pull them.
This broad metaphor also lent itself to sub-metaphors, including object-icons such as a rubbish bin (also the work of Mr Mercer when he worked at Apple in the 1980s), folders and files.
He saw the ship as a metaphor for the nation's post-war strength, pride and accomplishment.
Merely a metaphor, maybe, but one that - as metaphors can - touches the edge of actuality.
Actually, Obama's phrase about a fist--whether clenched or not--is too narrow a metaphor.
Indeed, Flash notes as much in a mildly heavy-handed yet highly effective metaphor about a kangaroo that was killed by a truck.
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Right off, use a rhetorical question, a provocation or challenge, an anecdote, statistic, catchy metaphor, or even a juicy self-disclosure to captivate your audience.
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One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
That is, the invisible hand is a metaphor for a suboptimal outcome driven by non-economic considerations.
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Indeed, at his confirmation hearing, McCaffrey said that the metaphor of a war on drugs was inadequate - too militaristic and macho.
Without the war metaphor, trade is just a peaceful, mutually-enriching endeavor between consenting parties.
She saw that the Web and the blogosphere would act as a giant fourth-grade classroom (oops, another metaphor), in which honor mattered and slander could not hurt you.
Technically, it would be important to them to have done a test and to - it's something like the metaphor of the missile test they did over the summer.
Tony Blair joked as he began, but the panto-style scenes at the conference are a metaphor for how controversial the issue of nuclear power still is.
And to extend that hockey metaphor, it was a day with a lot of end-to-end play.
In the end, metaphor aids with the act of creation, a fact well-known to artists through the ages.
It turns out that the people you passed up in our speed dating metaphor have the most to offer you in terms of game-changing feedback.
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