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Speaking of Animals - A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors (Hardcover, New)
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Speaking of Animals - A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors (Hardcover, New)
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No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors
than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal
metaphors that are current in American English. It is
comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to
the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the
dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible,
for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is
organized alphabetically by metaphor rather than by animal or
animal behavior; all the metaphors are classified according to
their animal source in a list at the end of the book. An animal
metaphor is a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses a
resemblance or similarity between someone or something and a
particular animal or animal class. "True" metaphors are single
words, such as the noun tiger, the verb hog, and the adjective
chicken. Phrasal metaphors combine true metaphors with other words,
such as blind tiger, hog the road, and chicken colonel. Other
animal metaphors take the form of similes, such as like rats
leaving a sinking ship and prickly as a hedgehog. Still others take
the form of proverbs, such as Don't count your chickens before they
hatch and Let sleeping dogs lie. The horse is the animal most
frequently referred to in metaphors, followed closely by the dog.
The Bible is the most prolific literary source of animal metaphors,
followed closely by Shakespeare.
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