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1381:. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
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1088:Teaching grandmother to suck eggs
1128:New Testament athletic metaphors
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585:Copernican Revolution (metaphor)
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301:Show someone the ropes
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703:Valency (linguistics)
523:Law of the instrument
193:Seeing pink elephants
178:Monkey see, monkey do
1288:Smyth, William Henry
1008:Neurathian bootstrap
1003:The Myth of Sisyphus
745:Rhizome (philosophy)
632:Crossing the Rubicon
580:Cassandra (metaphor)
430:Sun over the yardarm
153:Beating a dead horse
148:Elephant in the room
98:Song bird (metaphor)
93:Albatross (metaphor)
711:Valence (chemistry)
595:Judgment of Solomon
360:striking the colors
213:Throw to the wolves
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1145:Double edged sword
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806:Political football
677:Point of no return
493:Chinese fire drill
392:Weathering a storm
376:With flying colors
324:On one's beam ends
133:Chicken or the egg
1398:English Quarterly
1388:978-0-7618-2516-6
1366:978-0-07-032877-8
1058:Roof of the World
1038:Ignoratio elenchi
1033:The price of milk
893:Drunkard's search
823:Aesopian language
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402:Swinging the lead
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657:Ground zero
558:A big chair
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283:Taken aback
203:Snake venom
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1150:Dry powder
1063:Salad days
988:Mindstream
903:Endianness
888:Coming out
833:Bad apples
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575:Aunt Sally
563:A sailboat
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473:Brass ring
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249:Body parts
143:Duck trick
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49:rhetorical
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620:Uncle Sam
615:Aunt Flow
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260:Cold feet
72:Aristotle
60:hyperbole
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600:Mary Sue
351:Unmoored
345:Flagship
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64:metonymy
45:Metaphor
41:tangible
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