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Examples
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Not to overwork the metafor, but I have "security".
Dr. Tian Dayton: FInding Quiet in New York City (and Other High Stress Places) 2010
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February 24, 2008 at 1:47 pm if is a bike, third wheel metafor werks OK!
third wheel kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Kutasa bynajmniej tam nie bylo, ale poeta powinien u¿ywac metafor.
Dramat pozytywnie 2004
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Not that I mean any disrespect to Japan or the United States by the metafor, but I had to use a strong one to show off the difference.
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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And then I begun to weep on the other end of my handkerchief (metafor).
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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(Excuse my metafor, mom, I am country bred and born.)
Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881
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She looked curius, curiuser than the floor looked, and that is goin 'to the complete end of curosity, and metafor.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881
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I guess that hain't a very good metafor, and if I wuzn't in such a hurry
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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Why, to change my metafor a little about the bigness of this buildin ', so's to let foreign nations git a little clearer idee of the size on't,
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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The noble, harmonious beauty of this room strikes you as you first enter, some as it would if you come up sudden out of the woods, a-facin 'a gorgeous sunset -- or sunrisin', I guess, would be a suitabler metafor.
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
fbharjo commented on the word metafor
metaphor
November 19, 2015