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"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
—G.K. Chesterton, Defence of Slang, |
Guernsey, Lisa (2009), "Computers Track the Elusive Metaphor", Chronicle of Higher Education (January 23): A11.
Because money is a limited resource,
and a limited resource is a valuable commodity…
…then, if time is money ("spend time"),
then time is a limited resource ("run out of time"),
and time is a valuable commodity ("lose time")
Some limitations of metaphors and analogies:
Business is food?
Many things are exercise?
Baseball and animals:
Personalities are sports?
People are animals?
Education is laundry?
Is Everything Like an Analogy, or Is Everything a Metaphor?
Jobs Are Physical Objects that Can Be Lost and Found