Talk:762: Analogies

Surprised he said synecdoche instead of metonymy, which to me seems slightly more appropriate. What a terrible mess such devices are. I'm content memorizing 114 chemical symbols and the names and capitals of 196 generally recognized sovereign nations, but not the ~200 items on this list of tropes and schemes. --Quicksilver (talk) 01:50, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately, nobody was any the wiser after hearing this. 

The analogy from Einstein would have been well understood as cats whiskers were familiar radio sets in before valves became cheap enough for anyone to afford a modern radio. They were difficult to tune and quickly lost contact. It is a very good analogy.

I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 22:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

It seems highly likely that the opening lines of whether sandwich was a metaphor had to do with threesomes - i.e. a "sandwich" of a woman between two men. --108.162.216.67 07:57, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Agreed --Kynde (talk) 20:30, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Ahh, meta! SilverMagpie (talk) 22:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC)