Metaphor Enthusiast Mugs

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

'Oh...I thought you were just speaking metaphorically.'

'What's this, Dawkins?another of you 'visual metaphors'?'

"I hope you like sports metaphors."

"Stampeding off a metaphoric cliff - and you?"

Reading my Critics

'Are those physical or metaphorical thunderclouds moving in.'

"Sometimes, son, the guilt inside builds up so much you have to vent the shame silo."

"I know it's not an elephant, but we still need to talk about it."

"You're heading up our flagship company, Beavis, and, should anything happen, you'll be expected to go down with it."

'I was sure the nuclear option was only a metaphor.'

Butterflies look at a 'You Are Here' map in a stomach.

'Calm down Jenkins, it's simply a metaphor!'

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

When life gives you a metaphor get extra doggie bags.

'I see now! You're talking apples and I'm thinking oranges!'

'One day, this will make a wonderful metaphor.'

'Keep going...the future of trite metaphors depends on us.'

'It's time we addressed the 500 pound gorilla in the room. He's eating all the chips.'

"Hello - I'm on a train of thought."

Earl's job is to replace the bulb in the light at the end of the tunnel.

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

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

Metaphors.

King Cnut attempts to stop the tide from coming in and destroying his sandcastle.

Stabbed in the Back

"And then you threw me under the bus."

"Hah! That's a good one! 'Having your work reviewed by a committee is like being nibbled to death by ducks!' But what does that have to do with me?"

"Must get big stone."

Was Jonah being swallowed by the whale just another way of saying his company was taken over by a conglomerate?

'Sooner or later you will HAVE to admit that there is an obtrusive element in the room.'

Psychiatrist gag

'I like it. Our corporate structure in sticky notes.'

'HE was right you know.'

"As you know the knee is the Achilles Heel of the leg!"