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Funny Metaphors
Here are a few popular metaphors that can help us see why metaphor is an effective tool of figurative language. Teachers are encouraged to ask students to explore each term, searching for the reasons that each metaphor works.
Rug Rat:
Rug rat = infant. An infant crawls on all fours and chews on everything it can. Often the child is on a carpeted floor to prevent injury. Babies are known for their constant drooling and uncleanliness, and their willingness to eat indiscriminately. Compare this description to our common perception of a rat. The rug rat is an effective metaphor because we visualize a cross between rat and baby - something that has an air of both sarcasm and truth, and may also reveal something sinister about how our culture perceives early childhood parenting.
"...neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Lev.11:44, referring to Kosher diet).
Couch Potato:
Couch potato = lazy person. A lazy person buries themselves in the cushions of a couch (sofa, chesterfield, La-Z-Boy) in safe, sedentary comfort, "vegging out" mindlessly in front of the TV, eyes in a fixed, submissive stare. A couch potato never leaves the home, and cannot be motivated, having everything nearby so they never have to move. Compare this to the potato, which is buried in the comfort and providence of soil and to which the only escape from its lifestyle is death. Covered in eyes, but without a brain or muscle, the potato is snuggled and unmotivated.
A comfortable sofa is fertile soil for the couch potato.
Road Hog:
Road hog = territorially aggressive driver. The territorially aggressive driver takes up far more space than they need. They tend to push aside other drivers in their efforts for territory and destination, and in doing so, are impolite - even outright greedy, and are deemed unintelligent. This matches our concept of the hog, with our many phrases like "greedy as a pig", "you're making a pig of yourself" or "corporate pigs". One can visualize the pig at the feeding trough with other pigs, grunting and shoving with their self-centred intentions.
Passive drivers fatten the road hog.
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