Metaphor Enthusiast Prints

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Yes mum, metaphorically speaking, you're still in the driving seat."

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

When life gives you a metaphor get extra doggie bags.

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

'Sorry, we use the 800 pound gorilla metaphor here.'

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

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

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

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

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

'Life won't always put a coaster under you, son! Sometimes you sit on a cold, hard surface and you just deal with it!'

Metaphors.

"And then you threw me under the bus."

Stabbed in the Back

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

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

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

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

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

Psychiatrist gag

'HE was right you know.'