But only metaphorically is America a family, its members bound by tendrils of intimacy and affection.
We are in the middle of a knife fight between Washington and America, metaphorically.
Using these terms metaphorically is just a joke, not to be taken seriously, argue some.
You metaphorically strap yourself in with a seat-belt and say we're on air now.
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And having been at the peak, literally and metaphorically, they found the coming down too hard.
For the Naples Daily News, it mostly involved thinking of ad sales territories metaphorically rather than literally.
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Metaphorically speaking, women, you too are in danger of sporting a career combover.
The metaphorically-minded Mr. Eliot would be pleased to know that his famous phrase provides a double lesson for presenters.
Not kind of about him, not metaphorically about him, but actually about him.
Speaking metaphorically, Ausra business development chief Thomas Bartolomei says, "We have irons in the fire" but no signed deals yet.
Talling has made it his task to bring the English capital's lost rivers back to the surface, metaphorically at least.
It was as if he had to labour, and metaphorically sweat, before his genius could, or was allowed to, emerge.
So, as a leader in an organization probably something metaphorically like The Daily Planet what are we to do?
The final step is just metaphorically lying on our bunks divergently turning everything over and over in our minds until something pops.
He acknowledged to Susan that he was speaking metaphorically when it came to angels in order to seem aboveboard and keep her trust.
So, although this version of the philosophers' stone may not actually turn base metals into gold, it could yet end up, metaphorically, making some.
In politics, a dog whistle is a rhetorical device--an oral expression susceptible to two interpretations, one straightforward and one, metaphorically speaking, at a higher frequency.
Landmark offers strictly down and dirty (metaphorically speaking) diner food, including a wide variety of omelettes, tuna salad sandwiches and grilled cheese with sliced tomatoes.
One could even say, metaphorically, that the Fed is printing money.
"The ethos behind it, and the vision, is that we connect the indoor pools, the outdoor pools, and the sea, both physically and metaphorically, " he added.
NATO's European land forces might just as well be deployed in Bosnia building bridges literally and metaphorically as hanging around the German plains, waiting for non-existent Soviet tanks.
In an interview on WLS Radio in Chicago, Blagojevich explained he was speaking metaphorically to the reporter whose story appears in the February issue of the magazine.
They appeared to be "arriving a bit late in the day and too many cooks, literally and metaphorically, may spoil what remains of the broth", he said.
And the Sharia's call for "jihad" - loosely interpreted as Holy War, but which can also be used metaphorically to mean conversion of the unfaithful - was stressed.
Is Lynn really proposing to build some kind of international firewall amongst NATO member states that will keep non-member states out of their networks or is he speaking metaphorically?
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The music died when the first results came into Romney HQ in Boston - not metaphorically, but literally, as the jazz band that had been serenading Republicans stopped playing.
Not much good, frankly, and that is why the man the president compared to Alexander Hamilton might get virtually the same treatment (metaphorically, of course) that Hamilton got from Aaron Burr.
Do you remember when you were in elementary school, and there always was that guy who was accustomed to being metaphorically on top, then suddenly he started losing his spot?
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" As we explained last August: "In politics, a dog whistle is a rhetorical device--an oral expression susceptible to two interpretations, one straightforward and one, metaphorically speaking, at a higher frequency.
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