List of Metaphors Examples

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A Metaphor is a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer two unlike things
in such a way as though they are one.
Given below is a List of Common Metaphors used in Everyday Speech:
 Anger bottled up inside him (Metaphorical Example: He managed to keep his anger bottled
up inside him)
 A shot across the bows
 An endless night
 Apple of my eye (Metaphorical Example: She was the apple of my eye)
 Batten down the hatches
 Battle of egos
 Battle of the Bowling Alley
 Belling the cat
 Belt was a snake (Metaphorical Example: His belt was a snake curling around his waist)
 Better half (Metaphorical Example: She is my better half)
 Birds of a feather flock together
 Blanket of air (Metaphorical Example: Blanket of air surrounding earth)
 Blanket of bullets
 Blanket of clouds
 Blanket of exemption
 Blanket of flowers
 Blanket of ghosts
 Blanket of hope
 Blanket of indifference (Metaphorical Example: Blanket of indifference over homelessness)
 Blanket of insurance
 Blanket of love
 Blanket of roses
 Blanket of secrecy
 Blanket of snow (Metaphorical Example: A blanket of snow fell overnight)
 Blanket of stars
 Blow one’s trumpet
 Boiling frog
 Boiling mad (Metaphorical Example: You make my blood boil)
 Broken heart
 Butterfly Economics
 Cabin fever
 Camel’s nose
 Chain reaction
 Choices are crossroads
 Close quarters
 Cloudy memory
 Cold feet
 Consumed by love
 Copper bottomed
 Cotton candy words (Metaphorical Example: His cotton candy words did not appeal to her
taste)
 Couch Potato
 Crop of students
 Deep dark secret
 Domino effect
 Early bird
 Eyes were fireflies
 Eyes were saucers
 Flogging a dead horse
 Food for thought
 Fork in the road
 Full to the gunwales
 Give a wide berth
 Go by the board
 Hand over fist
 Hard and fast
 He got all steamed up
 He was a Lion on the battle field
 He’s just blowing off steam
 High and dry
 His eye on the Sparrow
 Home was prison
 Homework a breeze
 Hungry ghost
 Ideas are water
 Ideas are wings
 Ideas in motion
 Infinite crisis
 Infinite spectrum of possibilities
 Intimate relationship
 Jumping the shark
 Know the ropes
 Law of the Horse
 Legs were wax (Metaphorical Example: He tried to help but his legs were wax)
 Life a journey
 Life a mere dream
 Life a struggle
 Light of my life (Metaphorical Example: You are the light in my life)
 Loose cannon
 Love a battlefield
 Love a bond
 Love a camera, full of memories
 Love a fine wine
 Love a garden
 Love a growing garland
 Love a journey
 Love a thrill ride
 Love an experiment
 Love an ocean
 Melting pot
 Moral compass
 Night was falling
 Noisy neighbors
 Noisy stomach
 On your beam ends
 Panic stations
 Path of exile
 Path of glory
 Peace of mind
 Plain sailing
 Point of no return
 Profits fell last year
 Puppet government
 Push the boat out
 Rainbow of challenges
 Rainbow of flavors
 Rainbow of hope
 Rainbow of love
 Raining cats and dogs
 Reality an enemy
 Roller-coaster of emotions
 Rolling in dough
 Roof of the World
 Scapegoat
 Sea of bees
 Sea of fire
 Sea of ghosts
 Sea of knowledge
 Sea of love
 Sea of sadness
 Sea of smiles
 Sea of sorrows
 Sea of umbrellas
 Sea of uncertainty
 Shades of excellence
 Shades of hope
 Shake a leg
 Shaking the dust from the feet
 She felt her gorge rising
 Shipshape and Bristol fashion
 Shiver my timbers
 Shooting the messenger
 Shot down an idea
 Silken lies (Metaphorical Example: Her silken lies went unheard in the court of law)
 Simmer down!
 Slippery slope
 Smell of death
 Smell of fear
 Smell of rain
 Smoking gun
 Snake oil
 Social organizations are plants
 Spherical cow
 Stable economy
 Stable marriage problem
 Standing on the shoulders of giants
 Sticky wicket
 Storm of swords
 Strength and dignity are her clothing
 Stubborn stains
 Sweet dreams
 Sweet smell of success
 Tell it to the marines
 The bitter end
 The cut of your jib
 The evening of one’s life
 The sea bit my ankles
 Their ideas are difficult to swallow
 Thoughts are a storm, unexpected
 Three sheets to the wind
 Tiger Cub Economies
 Time a thief
 Turkeys voting for Christmas
 Walk the plank
 Wave of donations
 Wheels of justice (Metaphorical Example: The wheels of justice turn slowly)
 Work has dried up
       Examples of Metaphors in Sentences:
 A laugh in a sea of sadness.
 A light in a sea of darkness.
 A riverboat shall be my horse.
 Authority is a chair, it needs legs to stand up.
 Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge.
 Choices are crossroads.
 Crocodiles’ teeth are white daggers.
 He has the heart of a lion.
 He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.
 He was trying to bait her into debate.
 He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
 He’s like a duck out of water.
 Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her shoulders.
 Her home was a prison.
 Her hope was a fragile seed.
 His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.
 His head was spinning with ideas.
 I am all ears.
 I can read him like the back of my book.
 I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
 I try to weave all of the concepts together.
 I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
 In capitalism, money is the life blood of society and charity is the soul.
 Information travels faster in this modern age as our days start crawling away.
 It is raining cats and dogs.
 It is raining cats and dogs.
 It seemed that an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side.
 It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
 It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
 It’s going to be clear skies from now on.
 Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.
 Keep your eyes peeled.
 Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.
 Laugh a drink from the deep blue cup of sky.
 Laughter is the music of the soul.
 Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.
 Love is a camara, full of memories.
 Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of Spring.
 Love is a growing garland.
 My classroom is a zoo!
 My memory is a little cloudy about that incident.
 Please take a moment to digest the information.
  School is a gateway to adulthood
 She cut him down with her words.
 She is my East and my West, my compass.
 She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth without even knowing.
 She ran like the Wind
 She was just a trophy to Ricardo, another object to possess.
 Strength and dignity are her clothing.
 The assignment was a breeze.
 The body is a container for emotion.
 The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.
 The con artist managed to reel in another victim.
 The crier managed to lure in several new customers from off the street.
 The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
 The executives had golden parachutes to land safely after the company crashed.
 The job fair was a circus and John was a dancing bear.
 The job interview was a rope ladder dropped from heaven.
 The noise is music to her ears.
 The noise is music to my ears.
 The path of resentment is easier to travel than the road to forgiveness.
 The police finally netted a bank robber after an intense search.
 The promise between us was a delicate flower.
 The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.
 The skies of his future began to darken.
 The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.
 The test was a walk in the park.
 The wheels of justice turn slowly.
 The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
 These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
 They say that scars are the roadmap to the soul.
 Those kids are really blossoming.
 Thoughts are a storm, unexpected.
 Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
 We are all shadows on the wall of time.
 We’re always falling behind.
 Words are the weapons with which we wound.
 You are the light in my life.
 You are the sun in my sky.
 You light up my life with your presence.
 You’ve given me something to chew on.

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