metaphor

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If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke. 把两个矛盾的隐喻混用在一起

noun [专属名词] 隐喻,暗喻;象征,标志

This metaphor is very appropriate. 这个比喻很贴切。

meta- 表示“超过,改变” metaphor 隐喻(meta+phor 带来→〔语言〕改变着说→隐喻)
meta(变化) + phor(带有) → 以变化的方式表达 → 隐喻
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This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation. 这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings. 再混用一些隐喻,你还不会走就想跑,而我又修短了你的翅膀。
...the avoidance of violent expressions and metaphors like "kill two birds with one stone." …避免使用有暴力意味的表达和隐喻,如“一石二鸟。”
Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did. 忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart. 破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。