metaphor in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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il manie la métaphore avec bonheur
he uses metaphor to great effect

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The album's songs all include food in some way, sometimes as a metaphor.
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Here, however, he employs it as a medical metaphor.
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His use of metaphors are vivid, and complex, and many of his poems quite long.
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Advocates of the health metaphor argue for its simplicity as a communication tool.
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The intent of the metaphor was to describe the motion of the objects not their shape.
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The scallop shell also acts as a metaphor.
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I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.
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They widely used metaphors, sometimes producing long chains of them in their poems.
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A metaphor frequently employed to explain the meaning of makrifat involves pearl gathering.
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It is used as a metaphor of physical and spiritual health.
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