Posts Tagged ‘figurative language’

  • Depending on metaphor

    Posted by on April 05, 2011

    April is metaphorical English month here on Macmillan Dictionary Blog and over on the dictionary. We have some great contributors and contributions lined up for you. To kick off, our regular guest blogger Stan Carey discusses the importance of metaphor. Stan blogs over on Sentence first and tweets @StanCarey. __________ A character in Sarah Kane’s [...]

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  • In a league of our own

    Posted by on March 23, 2011

    It’s still sporting English month here on the blog, but it’s not long till metaphor month kicks off in April, so now seems an appropriate time to think about the figurative uses of the word league. Last year, Red Bull won the Hungarian Grand Prix just a week after Ferrari had dominated the German Grand [...]

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  • Two short legs and a silly point: learn (about) English through cricket

    Posted by on March 24, 2009

    Cricket is the most quintessentially English game, but is famously incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t been brought up with it. (The phrase in the title here makes perfect sense to an aficionado of the game but could easily be misinterpreted by anyone else.) George W. Bush – not the sharpest knife in the drawer – [...]

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