No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

An example of kintsugi art. Source: Marco Montalti/Shutterstock I have often used six metaphors to help my adolescent patients better understand the nature of their psychotherapy and their healing ...

Anxiety is one of the most common challenges for humans. Anxiety and worry have some evolutionary value, helping us to be attentive to what might or could happen if we don’t continue to pay attention ...

Universidad de Murcia provides funding as a member of The Conversation ES. Expressions linking space to time are a common part of our day to day lives. You might say the morning “flew by”, or that ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...

THE PHRASE “to have your cake and eat it”, much used in relation to Brexit, is a bit odd. In its current form it is not the paradox it purports to be, since having and then eating a cake is the usual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From ...