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 ...

Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in ...

When the Indian newspaper The Hindu ran a headline about rising inflation on June 3, declaring 'Tomato prices have become a hot potato', it may have had its tongue ...