Metaphor Appreciators Gifts

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

Reading my Critics

Race track - with the race being to apply the white lines between lanes

Meat Grinder

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

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

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

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

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

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

'When I said I would move mountains for you, it was just a figure of speech!'

A Poem about Sand

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

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

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

'Don't worry it's organic...'

Out of control

"Honestly, I thought you were a metaphor."

'Are we watching business news or sports news?'

"Good news. You know that elephant in the room we never talk about? He's now in the other room."

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."

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

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

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

Dangling Carrots

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

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

If poets wrote road signs.

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