Is America’s credit card limit maxed out? Hmmm… Remember: metaphors can work for you, but they can also work against you. Choose them with care.
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Figurative fighting
Just because most use of ‘fighting’ in political rhetoric is not literal does not mean that all such ‘fighting’ words are intended to be figurative.
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. …