metaphor

A sentence used to express the relationship of words, : can mean "is to" and :: can mean "as"

Arm is to leg as hot is to cold

have sex : lose virginity :: jumping off a cliff : death

by Xavier breath April 19, 2005

Metaphor

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Metaphors: Alice looks like a pig when she eats
Alice is as big as an elephant

by Sheldon Wong May 10, 2006

Metaphorical

Me. I'm mad metaphorical my dudes... And dudettes... I don't know what my fan base is like. Gotta be some dudettes in there. I donno. Gotta do a case study or something.

Hym "Ha! That's hilarious! You did see it. Iam had a fucking MELTDOWN!"

Iam "........."

Hym "Don't glare at me like that! You know it's funny! Big-time meltdown too. Like, 'ordered online from a Denny's' level meltdown."

Iam "I was upset..."

Hym "Hahaha! See!? He wants to lie so bad! Look at his face! HAHAHAHAA! And I'm not even being metaphorical."

Iam "I don't think you're using that word properly..."

Hym "Nah I'm doing it right."

Iam "Can we just go to bed? I'm not trying to be up until 7am again."

Hym "Yeah, yeah..."

by Hym Iam May 6, 2022

Mutaphor

A mutaphor is the unholy mix of two or more metaphors. For example:

You're as sharp as a button
A leopard can't change his stripes.
fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Danni used another great mutaphor in her last email.

by lurch1984 June 11, 2011

metaphor halls

pretend halls that entertain people during phone convos.

jess was walking down the metaphor halls. with chris, and they had eaten sushi and rice.

by Chris December 23, 2004

Multiphore

Multiple metaphores combined together

He fights dancing a samba choreographed by a devil with eye of the tiger

Better than synecdochic metaphors.

Multiphore antonyms: Dying Metaphore, Cliché

by Julian Conaghan October 6, 2011

Multiphor

Multiple metaphores combined to form one image.

Use when a synecdochic metaphor fails to articulate the magnitude.

For example:

She swims in a sea of diamonds drowning in happiness.

The metaphors of swimming in a sea of diamonds and also that of drowning in a sea of happiness are combined to produce a multiphor.

by Julian Conaghan October 17, 2011