In relation to making,

The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.

You're speaking figuratively.

A simple idea, but it could have such far reaching consequences.

Sexually unattractive people leave us cold.

literally one who talks to birds.

Friends, the road itself is amongst our oldest tropes.

It's a Sufi parable.

An additional twist is that all of the constructions in English are used not only literally, but in a quasi metaphorical way.

Comparing them makes no sense anyway

You have to measure its specific gravity, OK?

And the tourist brochures pointed me in the direction of this bridge

(Laughter)

Let's make it about the content not about the chrome as they call it.

Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.

located at the edges.

I think you meant it as a metaphor.

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.

I think that's false.

Those are called similes.

Somebody's trying to defend people moving into the field.

Pay careful attention the next time you read the financial news.

(Laughter)

So bridging that somehow.

Glamour was a literal magic spell.

That means the system cannot be dead, in a matter of fact.

Sadly, it's metaphorically true.

But the beauty of it is that it's just silk and sticks.

Why Kermit? she said, Kermit the Frog means nothing to me.

Not in a conventional sense.

We use them metaphorically the DNA of a company, the metabolism of a city, and so on is that just bullshit, metaphorical bullshit, or is there serious substance to it?

I met my wet sand.

(Laughter)

Art can change the way we see the world.

A curious metaphor, Doctor.

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

At that moment I became part of that biosphere.

That's how many people operate.

But before it was fossil poetry

We talk about being uplifted or elevated.

At least not in the traditional sense.

It has no absolute and universal significance.

Indirectly, in a manner of speaking.

This, to the English, seemed like an appropriate way to describe a steep and rocky ravine, a metaphorical extension of the words referenced to the throat.

And one of the problems that we face, I think, is that the only people that have cornered the market in terms of progress is a financial definition of what progress is, an economic definition of what progress is that somehow, if we get the right numbers to go up, we're going to be better off, whether that's on the stock market, whether that's with GDP and economic growth, that somehow life is going to get better.