Master Of Metaphors Mugs

Reading my Critics

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

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

"I think before we begin to address me, we need to talk about the clown in the room."

"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."

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

A Poem about Sand

'What do you mean, the chart resembles an iceberg?'

'Life is like a trough, Mr. Fisk. How much slop you get out of it depends on how much slop you put into it.'

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

'I've discovered you have feet of clay.'

'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.'

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

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

Some moss pounces on a rolling stone.

If poets wrote road signs.

Life Remaining Progress Bar

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

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

'Sometimes I scare myself when I realize that I always was and always will be.'

Up your end.

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

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

"It's the new business model - my ideas have sex with your ideas."

"... And this, gentlemen, is our target for the next six months."

'This is the eight hundred and sixty-seventh day of my captivity - How about you?'

Broccoli reading: 'Coping with Anthropomorphism'.

"Poetry would be way more accessible if they just said what they meant."

"he's out of the woods and resting comfortably in a sunlit glade."