| Figure of speech in which an expression applied to one thing is used to designate another |
Mirror Quiz |
29 Jan 2024 |
| Image from male heart op changes |
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| Figure of speech (8) |
Puzzler |
07 Jan 2024 |
| "Love Is a Battlefield" or "Life Is a Highway" | It may be mixed | "Boom," "splash," or "thud" |
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| Figure of speech – other map (anag.) |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Nov 2023 |
| Figure of speech |
The Times Concise |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Figure of speech |
Newsday |
12 Mar 2023 |
| Figure of speech (sometimes mixed) |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Feb 2023 |
| Spoon theory, for example |
USA Today |
07 Dec 2022 |
| Figure of speech suggesting something really is what it resembles |
Irish Times Simplex |
28 Feb 2022 |
| Figure of speech |
The Times Concise |
03 Oct 2021 |
| Figure of speech |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 May 2021 |
| Symbolic figure of speech |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 Mar 2021 |
| Figure of speech |
Newsday |
12 Feb 2021 |
| Figure of speech |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Image from Homer apt perhaps |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Symbolic form in Homer apt to change |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Dec 2020 |
| Came across a figure of speech -- this one? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Nov 2020 |
| Figure of speech that's upset mother, about father retiring |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Feb 2020 |
| Satisfied a number picked up analogy |
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| Franklin’s “A good conscience is a continual Christmas,” e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Dec 2019 |
| Expression where something is described as if it really is what it merely resembles |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 Dec 2019 |
| Nerves of steel, e.g |
New York Times |
13 May 2019 |
| Nerves of steel, e.g. |
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| Bumped into Harpo transformed as a figure of speech |
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| Something that shouldn't be mixed |
New York Times |
23 Sep 2018 |
| A figure of speech matched a figure of speech |
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| Symbolic type of team playing with power and fair amount of horror |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Feb 2018 |
| Heart of gold, for one |
Newsday |
03 Feb 2018 |
| Something that shouldn't be mixed |
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| "Mixed" figure of speech |
Family Time |
20 Nov 2017 |
| Mother upset about father backing image |
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| Figure of speech |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Aug 2017 |
| Figure of speech suggesting something really is what it resembles |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Jun 2017 |
| A figure of speech satisfied a figure in speech |
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| A figure of speech to hamper translation |
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| Figure of speech, oddly, to hamper or harm poet |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Oct 2016 |
| Reporter's come across a boundary in symbolic form |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Sep 2016 |
| "Life's a beach" is one |
USA Today |
03 Aug 2016 |
| Figure of speech suggesting something is what it resembles |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Mar 2016 |
| Image Homer modified to describe bug |
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| Shooting star swapping energy for a boozer's figure of speech |
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| "Life's a beach" is one |
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| Analogy |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Nov 2015 |
| Made-up to hamper image, in a manner of speaking |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Oct 2015 |
| Symbolic figure of speech |
Universal |
21 Aug 2015 |
| Symbolic figure of speech |
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| Satisfied with top mark for speaking? Don't take that literally |
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| Rhetorical device encountered once before in speech |
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| Sand in an hourglass, for time |
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| symbol |
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| Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared |
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| Symbolic figure of speech |
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| It may be mixed |
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| It's sometimes mixed |
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| Figure of speech |
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| "The Asphalt Jungle," literarily |
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| "A mighty fortress is our God," e.g. |
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| Love is a rose for example |
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| "Life is a bowl of cherries," e.g. |
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| NERVES OF STEEL |
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| Implied comparison |
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| Something often mixed |
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| "All the world's a stage," for example. |
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| "Why, the world's mine oyster." |
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| "Love is a battlefield," e.g. |
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