Crossword-Solution: METAPHORS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METAPHORS | anagram | ASHPROTEM, HAMSTERPO, HAREMSPOT, HARMPOETS, HARTPOEMS, HOPMASTER, MAHERPOST, MAPTHROES, MATHPOSER, MOPHATERS, MOTHERSPA, MOTSHAPER, OPRAHSMET, PASMOTHER, POMHATERS, POSHMATER, POSTERHAM, PRESTOHAM, PTAMOSHER, RASHTEMPO, SMARTHOPE, STAMPHERO, THAMESPRO, TOMPHRASE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “METAPHORS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Mixed" word forming this puzzle's theme | 1 answer |
| Bad writers mix them | 1 answer |
| Similes' relatives | 1 answer |
| They're sometimes mixed | 1 answer |
| They might be mixed | 2 answers |
| They may be mixed | 3 answers |
| Figures of speech | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METAPHORS (5)
The cdr and car operations have since become bases for formation of compound metaphors in non-LISP contexts.
You know I have dropped things down--little jokes and metaphors, little fantasies and paradoxes--and I have never heard them touch bottom!” This was an epigram on the part of a young man who had a lively play of fancy; but it was none the less true that Gordon Wright had a firmly-treading, rather than a winged, intellect.
And you let him--you let yourself be cut in bits’--she mixed her metaphors a little--‘be cut in bits, and used or discarded, while all the while every drop of blood in you belonged to him! But he’s Shylock--and you have bled to death of the pound of flesh he has cut out of you.’ But she despises me the most, you know--far the most--” Mrs.
The writer might here conclude, and, he believes, most triumphantly; as, however, he is in the cue for writing, which he seldom is, he will for his own gratification, and for the sake of others, dropping metaphors about vipers and serpents, show up in particular two or three sets or cliques of people, who, he is happy to say, have been particularly virulent against him and his work, for nothing indeed could have given him greater mortification than their praise.
But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors.
Quotes with METAPHORS (3)
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss t…
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the f…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1999–2022).