Loves Metaphors Gifts

The domino effect - a line of dominoes about to fall in sequence as the consequence of one tripping

Reading my Critics

'WD-40 un-sticks things that should move and duct tape makes things that shouldn't move, stop.'

"I see the White House didn't lower the flag to half staff."

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

"We had a brainstorm - I hope it's a brainchild."

"Honestly, I thought you were a metaphor."

Out of control

When Tia Carmen says... "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner" it means "I can fix it with a hammer."

A Poem about Sand

"See what you get for thinking outside the fishbowl!"

"You know what I think, babe? Seven on the Richter scale."

'Are we watching business news or sports news?'

Guru. It's not some kind of zen metaphor --- I really do have an invisible fence!

Rats deserting a sinking ship

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

'I don't suppose I need to remind anyone that when I use the term 'bite the bullet,' I mean it metaphorically.'

'Are those physical or metaphorical thunderclouds moving in.'

'Stick and Carrot Business Incentive Consultants.'

"Naturally you have trouble getting in touch with your innermost feelings. You're a hollow choclate bunny."

"I'm more interested in hearing about the eggs you're hiding from yourself."

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

If poets wrote road signs.

"The elephant is in the OTHER room. I want to talk about the PENGUIN in the room."

"now let's try one without the tusks."

Dangling Carrots

Ambitions...To Eat My Words: "Lobster, Fllet Steak, Peaches in Brandy."

"What a day, I swam with the sharks, ran with the bears and wreastled with the bulls..."

'So push has come to shove...'

'If this thing starts to snowball it will catch fire all across the country.'

'I had a nest egg once, but I sat on it too long, and ended up with nothing but a frozen asset.'

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."

"There are far too many balls in your court, Brintner!"