This metaphor, which you may have heard in a different context, has to do with frogs.
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This metaphor is analogous to the wedges we put into any type of relationship in our lives.
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Now, I am not sure that this metaphor bodes well for kids, but in terms of food it certainly works.
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Consider this metaphor: If I give you a dollar and you give me a dollar, we both still have a dollar.
And then there was this sports metaphor, which referenced a certain polarizing NBA star.
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.
This is a metaphor for the ticketing situation at Glastonbury these days.
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Naturally, Dalio sees this as a metaphor for how he invests.
This is usually a metaphor for when an elected official halts legislation.
This term is a metaphor for having deep insight into troubleshooting.
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The earth had not completed a full rotation after my article ( Aubrey And The Sex Metaphor) this past Sunday when on Monday morning Chesapeake announced the imminent resignation of four members of the board of directors.
She misses the central metaphor in this book which is actually not the synagogue she's looking for, not the hotel that one of the characters is building, but the cold cream the mother brings over on the Kinder Transport.
He uses a scientific metaphor to illustrate this point.
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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?
This is the business model metaphor that most closely fits the future of higher ed: MOOCS like CDs and downloads will enable personal learning opportunities at low cost to a large market, while at the same time universities will provide an environment for a smaller audience of undergraduates to gain wisdom as well as knowledge personally from those who create the knowledge.
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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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But in the case of weaver ants in Africa, this description may be more than just a metaphor.
To return to my earlier metaphor, the more companies take this approach, the more the ball gets passed, and the more people have jobs.
Ms. DICKINSON: And you know it's funny because the baseball metaphor, I've had this really strange career, and one of the things I say - and this works for college, too - is man, you know, I try 10 things.
Stay tuned for the longer post later this week, where we will put one particular metaphor through its paces.
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.
Using a stock exchange as a metaphor, the simplest way to explain this ecosystem is, websites have unsold inventory they pass to an ad exchange, similar to a stock exchange, and advertisers utilize demand side platforms, similar to a stock broker, to purchase the inventory.
This story of the Burmese pythons seems like an appropriate metaphor for our time.
Ms Showalter does not attempt to unravel the intractable moral and legal conundrums raised by this unsettling parable, but she uses it as a metaphor to ask questions about literary judgment.
And can you understand, sir, why some in the Gulf who feel besieged by this oil spill consider that a meaningless, possibly ludicrous, metaphor?
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In this respect, as in so many others, baseball is a metaphor for life.
One, this is not a time to take -- to use the metaphor -- take our foot off the accelerator here.
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