Combine malapropisms and mixed metaphors , and you've got a malaphor. It's a "mixture of tw...  ...ure of two idioms, creating a sort of malaprop in metaphor form." A famous example is the song "We'll Burn T...

Games are often used as metaphors for life. Chess is often used as a metaphor , although usually for war, which is more accurate...  .... Tor Bair beccame intimately aware of chess as a metaphor at an early age, and other games came only later....  ...fferent things. He lays...

In English, we often use the term "when pigs fly" to indicate something that will never happen. It's become so common that we've managed to make flying pigs a pop culture meme. It's not the only way to say it in English,...

Much to the chagrin of my high...  ...her, my classmates and I always got our metaphors and similes mixed up. But take heart, Mrs...  ...canner, whether they could understand a series of metaphors or similes. In keeping with previous fMR...  ...right inferior frontal gyrus wa...

My daughter is studying governments and needed som...  ...efore World War II, did any one person serve as a metaphor for oppression, cruelty, and all-around evil? Sla...

(YouTube link) The metaphors we use for the world of computers are kind of wei...