Metaphors help, please.

[Patti (baconater)]

A colleague is looking for examples of interesting metaphors to use as chapter headings for his doctoral thesis.

Please share your favourites here!

[David]

The idea that an aphorism is the last link in a chain of thought is a Readers' Digest Condensed Book.

[Patti (baconater)]

David wrote: "The idea that an aphorism is the last link in a chain of thought is a Readers' Digest Condensed Book."

I like that one!

[Alicia]

A good source is the King James Version of the Bible, possibly Book of Proverbs.

It's a little odd to be asked for random metaphors with no information about the book. I use chapter titles that are Bible quotations a lot, change them a bit, or find the really apt ones. This reference is searchable:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/

Check out something like 'pride' or 'children' - something useful may come up.

Suggest he go to my book's Amazon page, and scroll down to the ToC. Not to copy, but to see a bunch used that way. They seemed to fit.

[Patti (baconater)]

Cheers Alicia!

[Tim]

Broomsticks are a kind of mettyfor, according to Granny Weatherwax . . . ;)

[David]

http://www.metaphors.com

[Patti (baconater)]

That's cheating, David!

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "That's cheating, David!"

He relied upon the Internet like some warbler hatchling unable to break from the nest until pushed out and forced to learn independence.

[Jim]

David wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "That's cheating, David!"

He relied upon the Internet like some warbler hatchling unable to break from the nest until pushed out and forced to learn independence."

love it :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

David wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "That's cheating, David!"

He relied upon the Internet like some warbler hatchling unable to break from the nest until pushed out and forced to learn independence."

Clever!

[Joseph]

'A metaphor is a bit like a simile'

(yes, I know)

[Patti (baconater)]

:)

[Will]

Joseph wrote: "'A metaphor is a bit like a simile'

(yes, I know)"

Brilliant!

Hasn't the world gone mad for similes all of a sudden? Every other word you hear is "like"

[Alicia]

Anything fresh seems passé after everyone piles on the train.

The trick is to make the tired phrasing new again.

Like, you know, I mean, something they haven't heard a billion times.

[David]

Can you buff up your clichés to metaphors by waxing lyrical?

[Alicia]

David wrote: "Can you buff up your clichés to metaphors by waxing lyrical?"

Good one. That's actually how I do it.

Nice shiny little things they end up.