An effective metaphor, no matter the provenance, may affect public policy around the world.
Wondering about the difference between metaphor and metonymy?
Metaphor is all around us, as is metonymy.
A metaphor verdict
In the 1960s, Charles Katz was convicted of illegal gambling, having used a public telephone booth in Los Angeles to place out-of-state bets. The evidence against him consisted of recordings of his own telephone conversations, which the FBI had collected with a warrantless wiretapping device they had installed on the outside of the phone booth. …