The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or value of something, by its outward appearance alone.

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Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

Language is memory and metaphor

Language is memory and metaphor

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot,...

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot,...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental...

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental...

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.