Cliffs and metaphors
“If the cliff is behind us, doesn’t that mean that we’ve already —”
Block that metaphor
Cliffs and goal posts.
Happy harvest
Mirr Romney, harvesting people. Aiiee.
Kurt Andersen on American politics
Autoimmune disorders and the paranoid style in American politics.
From a back-pocket beacon to a cog
The bad metaphors of the day
Analogy
Similes, metaphors, analogies: from xkcd
Huffington Post, misleading headline
"Aftershock"
Inappropriate metaphor
"The nation's midsection"
Reinventing the wheel
A metaphor takes on new meaning
Metaphors for life
Gilgamesh and the Odyssey rule.
A cow on the tracks
Michael Steele's inept metaphor
Rod Blagojevich, maker of metaphors
He thinks he's Icarus (ugh)
Mixed metaphor of the day
"With so many pressing issues on his plate, Mr. Obama is engaged in an astonishing juggling act."
Awkward metaphor of the day
From A-Rod
Enough with the sink
"The kitchen sink strategy": a dying metaphor rears its head
Dying metaphor of the day
"Main Street"
Metaphor of the day
June 3 = February 5
Political metaphor of the day
A crash in West Virginia
Bad metaphor of the day
Ed Rendell compares students for Obama to Kool-Aid drinkers
Confusing metaphor of the day
The glass ceiling
James Carville's metaphors
Just words, right?
Strained political metaphors of the day
Carpetbagging beaver! Drunken horse! Tired as dogs! From Erica Jong : We have two great candidates — one a hard working, never give up eager...
Puzzling political metaphor of the day
About a steamroller
Political tropes of the day
The campaign aides cited in this New York Times article do just fine. But watch the reporter overreach: One aide wearily compared the cam...
Dying metaphors of the day
Heels and hackles
Of prongs and pillars
Inept political metaphor, from Wolf Blitzer
Inept political metaphor of the day
From Joe Klein
Times reporter on metaphorical spree
NY Times reporter mixing metaphors with abandon
CNN and mixed metaphors
A race, a gun battle, a prizefight
Holiday Inn as blog metaphor
Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) describes Holiday Inn: "A simple little layout where we could do our best at the work we know without any illusions ...