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Metaphorik
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meta·phor [ˈmetəfəʳ, Am ˈmet̬əfɔ:r] N
1. metaphor (figure of speech):
metaphor for
Metapher f <-, -n> für +acc
2. metaphor no pl (figurative language):
metaphor
bildhafte [o. metaphorische] Sprache
mixed ˈmeta·phor N
mixed metaphor
Bildbruch m
mixed metaphor
Katachrese f <-, -n> spec
to mix one's metaphors
nicht zusammenpassende bildliche Ausdrücke kombinieren
German
German
English
English
Metaphorik (Stilkunde)
use of metaphor
Metaphorik (die verwendeten Metaphern)
metaphors pl
Metapher
metaphor
tote Metapher
dead metaphor
lexikalisierte Metapher
lexical metaphor
Bild
metaphor
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Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)
to mix one's metaphors
nicht zusammenpassende bildliche Ausdrücke kombinieren
Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)
The ghastliness of the mixed metaphor is enough to show how flawed is the thought it expresses.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Coaches throughout the country are now under notice to concentrate their teachings on intonation and inappropriate use of the mixed metaphor.
www.theage.com.au
This, friends, is a mixed metaphor, and it is rude to point.
www.denofgeek.com
In this case, they're amused by a mixed metaphor.
torontoist.com
Sorry for the mixed metaphors.
www.propublica.org
Examples from the Internet (not verified by PONS Editors)
[...]
Directory trees and command lines on the operating system level were replaced by graphical user interfaces à la Apple Macintosh or Windows 95, using the "desktop metaphor".
www.hnf.de
[...]
Verzeichnisbäume und Kommandozeilen auf der Ebene des Betriebssystems werden ersetzt durch die "Grafische Benutzeroberfläche" a la "Apple Macintosh" oder "Windows 95" mit dem Schreibtisch als universeller Metapher.
www.hnf.de
[...]
This is the question Herrán is answering, presenting a building process as a metaphor of the possibility of integration which can be achieved – in spite the difficulties faced by Latin American countries and the residents of these neighborhoods – with the resources at hand for the common good.
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universes-in-universe.org
[...]
Darauf antwortete Herrán, indem er einen Prozess der Konstruktion als eine Metapher der Möglichkeit der Integration präsentiert, die trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, mit denen sich die lateinamerikanischen Länder und die Bewohner solcher Viertel konfrontiert sehen, mit den zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln zu bewerkstelligen wäre, um allgemeinen Wohlstand zu erreichen.
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universes-in-universe.org
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The conventions, symbols and metaphors in normative and narrative behavioural discourses of the eighteenth century, however, allow an understanding of how mental, social and psychological conflicts are related to the transformations of physical behavioral patterns.
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www.exzellenz-netzwerk-arw.uni-halle.de
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In den normativen und narrativen Verhaltensdiskursen des 18. Jahrhunderts hingegen geben Konventionen, Symbole und Metaphern zu verstehen, wie die mentalen, sozialen und psychischen Auseinandersetzungen mit den Veränderungen der leibhaftigen Verhaltensweisen der Menschen verbunden sind.
[...]
www.exzellenz-netzwerk-arw.uni-halle.de

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