User:Bawbmills/Books/Encyclopedia of English Language Metaphors

2017

 * 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