The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.
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.
The rise of the hamburger is a metaphor for the rise of America.
The subtleties of metaphor, the economy of vocabulary, the intelligence of rhyme mean little when your only interest is second-guessing the English examiner.
Although the use of the crowdsourcing metaphor may be new as it applies to a criminal investigation, it is almost certain we will see more of this in the future.
Sociologists, psychologists, rhetoricians, linguists, and historians of science have all noted the importance of language, metaphor, and definition to our very understanding of the world around us.
We are living in a time where the mainstream has been supplanted by multiple streams, the metaphor of choice, by the way, of social networking companies that trade in conversation.
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In a deliberately provocative speech, David Cameron, the Tory leader, adopted the metaphor of a caravan crossing the desert to highlight the importance of making sure that the income growth of the poorest keeps pace with the rest.
In several works, too, the humble Old City alleyway or hara, the turf of Cairo street gangs and the locus of urban loyalties, became a metaphor for Egypt or for the world itself.
The contrast between the staid exteriors and the vibrant interiors of homes is a metaphor for the city, says Val Nehez, an interior designer who works both out of Philadelphia and New York.
This was the rhetorical equivalent, forgive the football metaphor, of running out the clock: Obama clearly thinks he's ahead and just doesn't need to make mistakes.
Heavy-lidded eyes cast down, he concentrates intently on a book, with the deep, swirling folds of his enveloping red cloak serving as a visible metaphor for the cocoon of his ecstatic absorption.
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Is the sight of the German chancellor vainly urging back the floodwaters of the River Oder now a fitting metaphor for a man who seems, along with his government, to be inexorably sinking into a legislative and electoral morass?
His last two movies: Unstoppable and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 both involved trains and trains were a good metaphor for the kind of filmmaking Scott did.
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The syndication model of RSS extended as a metaphor through the Web and lives in the ubiquitous orange square (a graphical approach originally deployed in the Firefox browser) familiar to bloggers and podcasters everywhere.
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The music is in a constant state of becoming, a metaphor for the ceaseless activity that Mr Carter observed in contemporary America.
The Conservatives' Angela Burns, is never short of a metaphor or two and the shadow education minister is no fan of the Labour government's policy on student fees.
Having established the metaphor of pre-1914 Europe ( see here) I will stick with it.
Kouzes and Posner are big believers in the use of metaphor in motivational speech.
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And the reason it is so big is that it is supported by the power of metaphor.
For years I have used the metaphor of a two-sided coin to understand the strengths and weaknesses of people.
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The metaphor of the Hope Bridge AND Guardians is real and happening now.
Maybe the part of the brain that manages metaphor switches off under a certain temperature and takes a while to reactivate?
Indeed, at his confirmation hearing, McCaffrey said that the metaphor of a war on drugs was inadequate - too militaristic and macho.
She used the metaphor of bamboo, which possesses both strength and flexibility.
To take the metaphor of negotiation or combat as a game even further, if possible one should not only change the game board, but change the game.
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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.
So is this actually kind of a metaphor for the sort of internal struggle for the soul of Turkey of whether Turkey is going to be considered an Islamic country or a secular?
For instance, IBM believes its five-year-old U.S. Open SlamTracker, which analyzed all Grand Slam tournaments this summer, is the kind of metaphor that can help business managers understand why predictive analytics apply to them.
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