metaphorize

“I can just about see what JMS and Quesada are going for, in terms of using the OMD situation to metaphorize the question of power and responsibility and increase the stakes and the risks in so doing.”

A dumb idea … or the dumbest idea? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

“Salt in the wound" and "insult to injury" don't begin to metaphorize this travesty.”

Canada Free Press

“To B.L. from the vicinity of Wroclaw: The fear of straight speaking, the constant, painstaking efforts to metaphorize everything, the ceaseless need to prove you’re a poet in every line: these are the anxieties that beset every budding bard.”

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