idk if this is something to post abt on this sub but i thought it was funny and kinda related.
None of it makes sense OOF its discussion because i am idk
Idioms: An idiom is an expression that conveys something different from its literal meaning, and cannot be guessed from the meanings of its individual words. "Between a rock and a hard place" is an idiom that means “in a difficult or bad position with no good way of getting out of it.” What makes an idiom different from a figure of speech is that its non-literal meaning is already familiar to speakers of the language.
Metaphors: A metaphor is a word or phrase typically used to describe one thing but unexpectedly used to describe something different. Metaphors make language interesting and help create imagery. They also make us aware of connections that we may not have thought of before. "He was drowning in paperwork" is a metaphor that makes a connection between having to deal with a lot of paperwork and drowning in water.
Similes: A simile is an expression that uses the words like or as to describe something by comparing it with something else. A simile is like a metaphor except that a simile uses the words like or as to signal that a comparison is being made. “She’s as fierce as a tiger” is a simile, but “She's a tiger when she's angry” is a metaphor.
Source: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/Idioms-metaphors-similes-and-hyperbole
My son is learning about similes and metaphors and have slowly introduced him to Em’s music. Would love to share your examples of Em’s best or favorite with him!
I've always found it fascinating how Christians consider themselves God's bride (simile described in both in doctrine & scripture). I can't help but think about the marriage proposal though, as in "Honey, I love you very much; will you marry me? Before you answer please consider: if you say 'NO' I will torture you for all eternity. "
Could you say this deity truly loves her? Could you then say their deity would make a good, prospective husband?
I feel like I can definitely tell a good one when I read it. But when I'm trying to come up with one either I just can't or they're just super tacky.
For anyone who doesn't know (or needs reminding), a simile is a figure of speech that involves comparing two different things so as to make a description more vivid (e.g. 'as brave as a lion' or 'crazy like a fox'); and a metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable (e.g. 'it's raining cats and dogs' or 'Bob is a couch potato')
So put on your thinking caps and post 4 or 5 songs containing similes or metaphors (or both) in the title, lyrics or band name. Once again, don't forget to set your flair, leave us a comment, especially if your song choice isn't obvious by the title, and upvote generously.
Vatthupama Sutta: The Simile of the Cloth
"Monks, suppose a cloth were stained and dirty, and a dyer dipped it in some dye or other, whether blue or yellow or red or pink, it would take the dye badly and be impure in color. And why is that? Because the cloth was not clean. So too, monks, when the mind is defiled, an unhappy destination [in a future existence] may be expected.
"Monks, suppose a cloth were clean and bright, and a dyer dipped it in some dye or other, whether blue or yellow or red or pink, it would take the dye well and be pure in color. And why is that? Because the cloth was clean. So too, monks, when the mind is undefiled, a happy destination [in a future existence] may be expected.
"Knowing, monks, covetousness and unrighteous greed to be a defilement of the mind, the monk abandons them."
"Knowing...
- ill will
- anger
- hostility
- denigration
- domineering
- envy
- jealousy
- hypocrisy
- fraud
- obstinacy
- presumption
- conceit
- arrogance
- vanity
- negligence
...to be a defilement of the mind, he abandons it."
"When in the monk who thus knows that covetousness and unrighteous greed is a defilement of the mind, this covetousness and unrighteous greed has been abandoned."
"When he has given up, renounced, let go, abandoned and relinquished [the defilements] in part, he knows: 'I am endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha... in the Dhamma... in the Sangha; and he gains enthusiasm for the goal, gains enthusiasm for the Dhamma, gains gladness connected with the Dhamma. When he is gladdened, joy is born in him; being joyous in mind, his body becomes tranquil; his body being tranquil, he feels happiness; and the mind of him who is happy becomes concentrated.
"He knows: 'I have given up, renounced, let go, abandoned and relinquished [the defilements] in part'; and he gains enthusiasm for the goal, gains enthusiasm for the Dhamma, gains gladness connected with the Dhamma. When he is gladdened, joy is born in him; being joyous in mind, his body becomes tranquil; when his body is tranquil, he feels happiness; and the mind of him who is happy becomes concentrated.
Commenter: "It may be asked why the Buddha had given this simile of the soiled cloth. He did so to show that effort brings great resul
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This is one aspect from my comedy that I don't do too often because it doesn't come natural to me. I'd like to incorporate it somehow.
Like when Mulaney says a 13 year old babysitting a 10 year old is like paying a horse to watch your dog.
Anyone struggle with this? Any tips on how to approach writing like this?
[Edit 1-3]: Figuring out spoiler tags [Edit 4]: in 5 books not 7 sorry! [Edit 5]: Edited post!
In The Churn>!“She (Lydia) probed at the thought like a tongue-tip against the sore gum where a tooth has been knocked out.” The Churn!<
In Leviathan Wakes>!“Miller poked at the words like a tongue at the gap of a missing tooth. It rang true. Again.” Leviathan Wakes Chapter 18!<
In Caliban's War>!“So he (Prax) explored himself, probing at the wound at the center of his personal world like pressing the tip of his tongue into a dry socket.” Caliban's War Chapter 24!<
In Cibola Burn>!“As he drifted, sometimes Basia was on the Rocinante, his mind worrying over the missing rumble of the fusion reactor like a tongue searching the gap left by a lost tooth.” Cibola Burn Chapter 33!<
In Persepolis Rising>!“But like a tongue prodding a sore tooth, she (Drummer) kept reaching for the others. Laconia is the future.” Persepolis Rising Chapter 31!<
So...I found TWENTY references to “order(s) of magnitude!
>!Drive: “It’s within an order of magnitude,” Tori said”
Leviathan Wakes: “About ten exajoules,” Naomi said. “That’s just off the top of my head, but I’m not off by an order of magnitude or anything.”
Caliban's War: “Any decent-sized Martian city is going to have an order of magnitude more people than Eros did.”
“Ganymede had ten times as many humans and many orders of magnitude more mass than Eros.”
Abaddon's Gate: “Accounts that Holden had thought of as comfortably full suddenly looked an order of magnitude too small.”
Cibola Burn: “But we are looking at an expansion that is not one or two but three orders of magnitude more than we have had in the history of our species.”
“That this stillness masked a velocity that was orders of magnitude faster than a rifle shot was intellectual knowledge.”
“A motorized cart system would increase production by an order of magnitude.”
“In the darkness, the details were hard to make out, but it seemed to share the same almost organic architecture with the ruins back in First Landing, but a couple orders of magnitude larger.”
“A thousand suns, Bobbie. Three orders of magnitude more than we have ever had before.”
Nemesis Games: “As light as the Razorback was, the missiles were an order of magnitude less mass to accelerate.”
Babylon's Ashes: “No one knew how it would age, though if reports from the other worlds were to be trusted, it would likely outlast the people who’d fashioned it by at le
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È il secondo post oggi che faccio, non rompete il cazzo, ma non spammerò più giuro, devo sfogarmi, insultatemi pure, che tanto mi diverte. Premetto che non sono incel, qualche ragazza ce l'ho avuta e l'ultima l'ho mollata da poco, per altri motivi, non questo. Però in ogni storia metà del tempo morivo dentro perché la verità in fondo è che voglio scopare una come belle delphine o meglio ancora lei stessa. Ma non sarà mai possibile. Non potrò mai averne una cosi bella e di quello tipo, waifu egirl/ethot, mi fanno morire. Non so nemmeno se in presenza di una ragazza simile riuscirei a non prenderla e palparla ovunque. Cioè alla fine non lo farei perché di andare in prigione e non potere giocare più a league of legends non ho proprio voglia. Perché non esistono escort simili? Lo sanno quelle esistenti di quanti clienti tra i giovani avrebbero se facessero tipo cosplay?
Non lo so ma io sto morendo dentro, non c'è cosa che desideri di più al mondo. Datemi belle delphine vi prego, quella ragazza è come il crack per me (sono astemio e adrogato).
Come non detto mentre scrivo questo post è iniziato la live di non è la durso e porcodio vorrei scopare a sangue pure lei. Evidentemente sono attrattisimo da tutte le donne che son piene di make up e luci fatte apposta che ne so.
Comunque preferirei belle delphine si ne sono convinto.
Su myfreecams c'è una che si chiama fionathefox che è simile come stile e mamma mia ogni volta mi fa morire quando fa gli ahegao.
Vorrei essere un chad per potermi scopare delle 10 come loro ma al massimo posso avere delle 4/5, cioè porette sono ragazze buonissime ma non mi ispirano come belle delphine, ma mi rendo conto che essendo basso e bruttino non posso pretendere.
Io la amo la voglio e voglio che partorisca dei miei figli. Vi prego se avete un'amica che le assomiglia pago 1000 euro alla scopata.
Edit: In addition to the answer stated here, I also found r/RoomPorn and r/DormRooms that kind of fit the vibe as well.
Edit: Redults: r/CozyPlaces, r/ScandinavianInterior, r/RoomPorn, r/AmateurRoomPorn, and r/DormRooms!
Recently I read this sentence in a Bill James book and thought it was an excellent metaphor:
"The difficulty with this approach is that it in essence requires you step on every land mine in the process of mapping the minefield."
I've never heard that saying before but I thought it was very clever, and using Google it doesn't seem to be a particularly common saying, though probably not original to James.
My favorite simile in general is "like rearranging deskchairs on the Titanic," but that's in common use, not from a book. I plan on using that Bill James one a lot now. Any of you have similes/metaphors you use that you picked up from books?
EDIT: Deckchairs, not deskchairs. It was a typo, I swear.
Then she ripped it in half and said, “Never mind, it’s tearable.”
I feel like I’ve succeeded as a dad.
Short story. I was in a band in my early twenties. We used to travel all over the state to do gigs, and since my parents had a van, I would often borrow it to drive us to and fro. My mother was a militant reformed smoker, and had an anti-smoking bumper sticker on the back of the van that said “Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray”.
One afternoon, as we were packing up to leave for a gig, our guitarist, Kevin (who was a smoker), noticed the bumper sticker for the first time.
“That is so stupid! He exclaimed.
“What do you mean?” I responded, “Its kind of obvious, right?”
“It doesn’t make any sense!” He said
“Doesn’t make sense? Why not?” I asked, puzzled,
“Look, that makes absolutely no sense at all.” He explained, as if I were utterly clueless. “That’s just like saying ‘If you like golf, stick a putter up your ass’!”
When someone is not doing A, but also not doing B, it might've been along the lines of "not going down either stream" or "not slipping into either of the boxes" but I'm not sure. If you know any simile (or metaphor, again, not sure what this counts as sorry) that means the same thing feel free to mention it! Thanks!
Title is the big question. The same thing apply to metaphors.
I'm doing my second draft. I want to cut out the fluff, at least the bigger culprits. How many metaphors and similes are too many? When and when not to use them? I think I'm doing a fairly good job at keeping them in check, but you never know.
He said. “Sorry. That was a long winded story.”
