Bootstrap as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

Connolly also suggests that in context the marriage metaphor was necessary in that it truly exemplified the unequal interaction between Yahweh and the people Israel.

A set of ontological distinctions related by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience were more basic than any properties or symbol-based comparisons.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

The conception of ordination brought with it largely unspoken parallels with the Anglican and Catholic priesthood, but the overriding metaphor in James's handbook was that of a father's relation to his children.

), but this plan was reportedly scrapped because Raymond Burr expressed displeasure at the idea, taking the idea of Godzilla as a nuclear metaphor seriously.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

Kung-an was itself originally a metaphor — an article of furniture that came to denote legal precedents.

It was Lakoff & Johnson ( 1980, 1999 ) who greatly contributed to establishing the importance of conceptual metaphor as a framework for thinking in language.

Yet again, today it is almost certain that this legend was used as a metaphor, in allusion to the old Slavic pagan ceremony known as the " postrzyżyny ": During that ceremony hair cutting was performed to every boy at the age of seven.

Others, Themistocles among them, said the oracle was clearly for fighting at sea, the metaphor intended to mean war ships.

In fact, in antiquity as today, falling to one's knee ( s ) was a metaphor for coming to a disadvantage and putting oneself at risk of losing the fight, as argued persuasively by Michael B. Poliakoff.

:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.

This view was also thought unable to address many issues such as metaphor or associative meanings, and semantic change, where meanings within a linguistic community change over time, and qualia or subjective experience.

Mechanistic thinking was particularly critiqued, especially the industrial-age mechanistic metaphor of the mind from interpretations of Newtonian mechanics by Enlightenment philosophers and later psychologists that laid the foundations of modern organizational theory and management by the late 19th century.

A metaphor for America was Gary Cooper as the real life Sergeant York who went from hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a draftee comparing the Bible to the History of the United States and deciding that his marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.

However, Wally Schirra had been prevented from naming his Apollo 7 spacecraft Phoenix in honor of Grissom's Apollo 1 crew since it was believed the average taxpayer would not take a " fire " metaphor as intended.

His eclectic philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings.

Ulam was among the first to refer to the technological singularity, and possibly the originator of the metaphor itself.

He argued that the alchemical process was the transformation of the impure soul ( lead ) to perfected soul ( gold ), and a metaphor for the individuation process.

He developed an extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis and coined the term brief therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions.

The < nowiki >'</ nowiki > pataphor (, ), is a term coined by writer and musician Pablo Lopez (" Paul Avion "), for an unusually extended metaphor based on Alfred Jarry's " science " of ' pataphysics.

“ Many years ago, Thomas Jefferson coined the metaphor, ‘ the wall between church and state .’ I have heard the summons from the other side of the wall.

Carr 1990: 112 ) coined the metaphor longpan 龍蟠 ( lit.

The iron metaphor was most famously applied to Margaret Thatcher, and was coined by Captain Yuri Gavrilov in 1976 in the Soviet newspaper Red Star, for her staunch opposition to the Soviet Union and communism.

The term was coined in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

A game adopts the cyberspace metaphor by engaging more players in the game, and then figuratively representing them on the screen as avatars.

Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

Note that the so-called Kinshasa Highway is not a physical road but a metaphor applied to the route by which AIDS is believed to have been spread east through Uganda and Kenya and neighbouring countries by truck drivers from the Congo.

The metaphor of the ' path ' of Daena is represented in Zoroastrianism by the muslin undershirt Sudra, the ' Good / Holy Path ', and the 72-thread Kushti girdle, the " Pathfinder ".

In some applications, especially in logic, the alphabet is also known as the vocabulary and words are known as formulas or sentences ; this breaks the letter / word metaphor and replaces it by a word / sentence metaphor.

Władysław Reymont's The Revolt ( 1922 ), a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce " equality.

It is expressed through both philosophical tracts and metaphor that the potentiality of masculine being is given actuation by the feminine divine.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

Claudius's high status is reinforced by using the royal first person plural (" we " or " us "), and anaphora mixed with metaphor to resonate with Greek political speeches.

The metaphor used to describe the " sense of a social setting that exists purely within a space of representation and communication.

It has also been critiqued as being unhelpful for falsely employing a spatial metaphor to describe what is inherently a network.

It is also difficult to accurately translate original alchemy texts, especially medieval Chinese texts which employ metaphor to describe unexplained phenomena, into contemporary scientific language with its rigidly defined terminology.

In this work, he defined rhetoric as " a study of misunderstandings and its remedies ," and introduced the influential concepts tenor and vehicle to describe the components of a metaphor — the main idea and the concept to which it is compared.

The metaphor " Indian Summer " is often used by journalists, biographers, and music critics to describe Strauss's late upsurge of genius from 1942 through the end of his life.

In Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues.

In addition, Ship of Fools was used as the title of a book by the Irish journalist Fintan O ' Toole on the causes of the financial crisis in Ireland, the metaphor being used to describe the Irish political establishment and their self-deception regarding the economic situation in the country.

Adam Smith first used the metaphor of an " invisible hand " in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments to describe the unintentional effects of economic self-organization from economic self-interest.

It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States ; the melting-together metaphor was in use by the 1780s.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the metaphor of a " crucible " or "( s ) melting pot " was used to describe the fusion of different nationalities, ethnicities and cultures.

Cnet Journalist Declan McCullagh called " series of tubes " an " entirely reasonable " metaphor for the Internet, noting that some computer operating systems use the term ' pipes ' to describe interprocess communication.

Metaphor and figurative description may be a part of analysis, and a metaphor used to describe pieces, " reifies their features and relations in a particularly pungent and insightful way: it makes sense of them in ways not formerly possible.

The metaphor of movement of iron in the proximity of a magnet is used to describe this process.

In economics, the invisible hand of the market is a metaphor conceived by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace.

Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the " middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone ", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz.

Biologists instead use the metaphor of a mosaic to describe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use the metaphor of an intertwined net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of horizontal gene transfer.

Thinkers often use the metaphor of a race to describe equality of opportunity.

: The phrase about the murderous rage of the rapist has since been withdrawn noted above, which indicates that McClary realized it posed a problem, but it has the great merit of recognizing that something extraordinary is taking place here, and McClary's metaphor of sexual violence is not a bad way to describe it.

The name refers to the smoking gun metaphor, which is commonly used to describe an incriminating piece of evidence.

The glass ceiling metaphor has often been used to describe invisible barriers (" glass ") through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them (" ceiling ").

Cortázar does the same by using a loose form of prose, rich in metaphor and slang, to describe life.

The theatre is a metaphor often used to describe role theory.

Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally.

Vickrey argued that the poem is an allegory for the life of a sinner through the metaphor of “ the boat of the mind ,” a metaphor used “ to describe, through the imagery of a ship at sea, a person ’ s state of mind ” ( 251 ).