But metaphors are useful as a stepping stone into understanding more sophisticated concepts, as well as communicating those concepts to other people.
You may think of this role as a stepping stone, but your employer may have other ideas.
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Albania might be a poor thing, but Mussolini fancied it for his own, seeing the country as a stepping stone to the more glorious prize of Greece.
The burden could be lessened by extending the filing deadline to give companies time to get their info to the IRS. We tend to think of April 15 as a date set in stone, but the original filing deadline was in March.
But under a stone statue of a ferocious imperial lion (looking as if about to pounce), a young woman has stopped to have her picture taken.
The software isn't bad--in fact, you could argue it's the hot-selling Macintosh computer's secret weapon--but no one was gasping in awe as Schiller showed off the ability to add a stone texture to bar charts in Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet software.
It has been described as "a stepping stone" to the devolution of the powers, but does not dictate when that should be.
Sometimes bigger is not necessarily better: removing imperfections, known as inclusions, may reduce the size and caratage of a stone, but could also elevate it to a more valuable grade.
But if you visualized the bill as a bound and printed document, set in paper if not stone, then you were mistaken.
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This magnificently restored 19th-century stone-and-brick neo-Gothic structure was built as a bank, but served most recently as the municipal conservatory.
At the same time the AS-level would no longer be a stepping stone exam that counts towards a full A-level but instead become a stand-alone qualification.
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