Rates a recommendation to lovers of language. – William Safire, New York Times. A masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it illuminates the similarities between them, accomplishing in a word or phrase what could otherwise be expressed only in many words, if at all. Metaphors Dictionary is an expansive collection of 6,500 colorful classic and contemporary comparative phrases (with full annotations and a complete bibliography of sources). The Metaphors Dictionary revisits most of the great and respected names in the annals of cultural literacy while dipping into current literature and media sources. And now available for the first time in hard cover, it’s bound for heavy duty at a price that’s hard to beat.
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Disappointing. Most of these metaphors can be found online or are
tried and true, at best. Not applicable to simple prose.
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I have not gone into the depth of it much but at a glance it seems apt for its purpose. What I miss is a metaphor or symbol dictionary that accounts for the ways singular words can be lent to metaphor. Like sky, desert, glass, water and so forth and in what metaphorical applications they have been used.
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Has considerably enriched me as a writer. It's with me wherever I go. That's really all that needs to be said about it.
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