Metaphor Examples is the largest collection of metaphors on the web.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
Metaphors are used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.
A metaphor directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect
Metaphors about life
- All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players
- After years of misbehaving, he turned over a new leaf this year.
- We lived a rollercoaster of emotions
Metaphors about being happy
Metaphors about education
Metaphors about money
Metaphors about peace
Metaphors about winter
Metaphors about anger
Metaphors about a person
Metaphors about eating
Metaphors about sadness
Metaphors about
- She is fishing in troubled waters.
- But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet, the sun!
- My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
- Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
- I am the good shepherd, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- Maria is a chicken.
- A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind.
- David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.
- Gary is a mule.
- George is a sheep.
- He is a chicken.
- He is a night owl.
- He is a road hog.
- How could she marry a snake like that!
- Max is a pig when he eats.
- She is a peacock.
- She is a shining star.
- She is fishing for more.
- She is my old flame.
- She is on a rollercoaster of emotions.
- The thunder was a mighty lion.
- upon this rock I will build my church