| Now that's what I call an extended metaphor. |
| And he did so, typically, with an extended metaphor drawn from literature. |
| So when John McCain made an extended metaphor comparing the Tea Party to Hobbits obsessed with defeating Mordor, Colbert was practically giddy with excitement at the prospect of extending this metaphor. |
| One can argue with the appositeness of this extended metaphor. |
| Allegory in the sense of Quintilian as a trope, an extended metaphor, Wilson mentions only once. |
| Moving away from our extended metaphor to the perceived gulf separating archivists and librarians, it should be noted that there is no common foe other than both professions becoming irrelevant to the society at large. |
