It's easy to think of this analogy as very different from some of the other things you might pick.

With respect to comprehensively strengthening party discipline, General Secretary Xi Jinping has given many vivid and impressive metaphors, so let s review them together!

So if I can finish with a metaphor for intervention, what we need to think of is something like mountain rescue.

And so I think the tempting analogy for the boom bust that we just went through with the Internet is a gold rush.

This is not a metaphor.

That's the metaphor, the old metaphor.

A Metaphor for Obama

That was the level of rhetoric.

He told them this parable.

He told them this parable.

And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

Oh, that was rather a figure of speech.

He said to them, Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

He said to them, Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Four feet. Nothing larger than the sum of her figurative parts.

I thought it was a figure of speech. No.

A fellow TED speaker, Jonathan Haidt, came up with this beautiful little analogy between the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables and without a parable spake he not unto them

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables and without a parable spake he not unto them

Object metaphors describe price movements as non living things, as in, The Dow fell like a brick.

Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden.

The legendary witch that rides on the imaginary broom?

Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.

Consider the following analogy

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

Why mountain rescue?

And somebody was talking about metaphors on Monday.

I can't feel your simile is entirely fortunate.

You know, it's a new wrinkle.

It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform gyrus of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the ability to engage in Buba Kiki, but they also lose the ability to engage in metaphor.

Colombian coffee has been particularly successful in establishing a brand image.

Modern neuroscience is revealing that metaphors are intrinsic to creativity, for their use activates diverse regions of the brain associated with their multiple meanings. Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.

I'd like to end with a little metaphor here.

What is the appropriate new metaphor for aging?

And, all right, I'm kind of milking the metaphor a little bit.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.