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Encyclopedia of English Language Metaphors[edit]
2017[edit]
- List of English-language metaphors
- Animals
- 800-pound gorilla
- Albatross (metaphor)
- Belling the cat
- Blind men and an elephant
- Boiling frog
- Butterfly effect
- Camel's nose
- Chicken or the egg
- Dead cat bounce
- Elephant in the room
- Flogging a dead horse
- Four Asian Tigers
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- Jump the Gun
- Letting the cat out of the bag
- Mama grizzly
- Monkey see, monkey do
- Ostrich effect
- Reverse ferret
- Seeing pink elephants
- The Sheep and the Goats
- Snake venom
- Spherical cow
- Turkeys voting for Christmas
- Turtles all the way down
- White elephant
- Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
- You have two cows
- Body Parts
- Broken heart
- Cold feet
- Heart (symbol)
- Nautical
- Flagship
- Sheet (sailing)
- Yard (sailing)
- Objects
- Kill switch
- Brass ring
- Brass monkey (colloquialism)
- Bucket brigade
- Chain reaction
- Chinese fire drill
- Cultural mosaic
- Domino effect
- Don't judge a book by its cover
- Holy Grail
- Inverted pyramid (journalism)
- Law of the instrument
- Melting pot
- Rosetta Stone
- Silver bullet
- Snowball effect
- Soapbox
- Zanata Stone
- People
- Aunt Sally
- Cassandra (metaphor)
- Copernican Revolution (metaphor)
- Hobson's choice
- Judgment of Solomon
- Mary Sue
- Procrustes
- Whipping boy
- Benedict Arnold
- Places
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Fork in the road (metaphor)
- Ground zero
- Mother lode
- Plateau effect
- Podunk
- Point of no return
- Slippery slope
- Road to Canossa
- Science
- Valency (linguistics)
- Anti-Oedipus
- Rhizome (philosophy)
- Sport
- Carnoustie effect
- Doing a Leeds
- Face-off
- False start
- Media scrum
- Own goal
- Pole position
- Political football
- Various
- Aesopian language
- Apollo archetype
- Battle of egos
- Bīja
- Black-and-white dualism
- Bootstrapping
- Cabin fever
- Cherry picking
- Nuclear meltdown
- City upon a Hill
- Closeted
- Coming out
- Streetlight effect
- Enchanted loom
- Endianness
- Fatted calf
- Five wisdoms
- Gates of horn and ivory
- Gold in the mine
- Gordian Knot
- Greek to me
- Green shoots
- Hue and cry
- Hungry ghost
- Iron (metaphor)
- Jungle
- Kōan
- Late bloomer
- Mind Stream
- Musical chairs
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- Neurathian bootstrap
- Nutshell
- Panopticon gaze
- Pear-shaped
- Post turtle
- The price of milk
- Ignoratio elenchi
- Red pill and blue pill
- Representation (systemics)
- Roof of the World
- Salad days
- Salt and light
- Ship of State
- Son of a gun
- Survival of the fittest
- Teaching grandmother to suck eggs
- Technical debt
- Touchstone (metaphor)
- Tragedy of the commons
- Tunnel vision
- Unmarked grave
- Yin and yang
- New Testament military metaphors
- New Testament athletic metaphors
- Baseball metaphors for sex
- War
- Catch-22 (logic)
- Fog of war
- No-win situation
- Pyrrhic victory
- Saber noise
- Shareholder rights plan
- Shooting the messenger
- Smoking gun
- Texas sharpshooter fallacy
- War chest
- Win-win game