metaphors in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for metaphors in the English»French Dictionary

metaphor [Brit ˈmɛtəfə, ˈmɛtəfɔː, Am ˈmɛdəˌfɔr, ˈmɛdəˌfər] N

metaphor

métaphore f

to mix one's metaphors

faire des métaphores incohérentes

mixed metaphor N

mixed metaphor

métaphore f incohérente

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flyblown joke, metaphor

éculé

crude attempt, belief, metaphor, expression

grossier/-ière

employ expression, term, metaphor

utiliser, employer

use language, metaphor

se servir de

Translations for metaphors in the French»English Dictionary

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métaphore

metaphor

s'exprimer par métaphores

to speak in metaphors

il s'exprime par images

he expresses himself in images ou metaphors

il manie la métaphore avec bonheur

he uses metaphor to great effect

metaphors in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for metaphors in the English»French Dictionary

metaphor [ˈmetəfəʳ, Am ˈmet̬əfɔ:r] N

metaphor

métaphore f

mixed metaphor N

mixed metaphor

métaphore f incohérente

Translations for metaphors in the French»English Dictionary

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métaphore

metaphor

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In later centuries, the expression waifs and strays came to be used as metaphors for and ultimately became synonymous with abandoned or neglected children.

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It contained 1,655 hand written proverbs, metaphors, aphorisms, salutations and other miscellany.

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His prose is magnificent and sonorous, but abounds in neologisms and strange metaphors.

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Its gory depravity representing our feelings of triumph transforms into one of the most revealing metaphors in all of literature.

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I made nine pages of closely written notes on its various metaphors, insights and similes.

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Some poets aren't satisfied with plain clothes or plain language, they turn their metaphors into absurdist imaging or trace an elliptical line of thought.

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He is a master of metaphors and deals with topics such as nature, the longing of someone special, birthday gifts, popcorn fights, hot phonecalls, etc.

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He used the most extravagant metaphors, the most forced antitheses and the most far-fetched conceits.

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This hypothesis suggests that conceptual metaphors facilitate the understanding of idiomatic expressions.

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His recommendations were filtered through metaphors and grandiloquent rhetoric.

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