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Not the End of Metaphoric Madnes
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Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the finish line, as the start line becomes a mere blur in the circuit of life, on which metaphor should be your focus?
Why is your finish line only as good as your start line? How are these two metaphors connected? Is sprint a metaphor for any short and speedy spell of running? When are you likely to short circuit the circuit metaphor? Can stymie be a metaphor for frustrating your initiatives totally, stem and root? When does your food turn into a mulligan stew?
How did the common defence strategy of sandbagging turn into a biiliards metaphor? Marathon and steeplechase - which is a metaphor for endurance and which is a metaphor for perseverance? Is volley a metaphor for a hail of compliments? Should a salvo surprise and sear to be a metaphor? When do you turn gambit into a weasel metaphor?
Why should chequered be a metaphor for our basic life philosophy? Which pawn metaphor is extremely negative? When do you run the risk of stalemating the stalemate metaphor? When does stalemate on ground become a diplomatic checkmate?
All metaphoric googlies! Springing nasty surprises and visiting you unannounced! Do not get caught off guard!! With Not the End of Metaphoric Madness, you need not feel checkmated. This Book 4 is sure to help you out of your metaphoric dilemmas. It will aso assist you in upholding metaphoric propriety and ensure you do not commit a serious metaphoric faux pas.
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Not the End of Metaphoric Madnes
Până la Harish Kumar
Descriere
Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the finish line, as the start line becomes a mere blur in the circuit of life, on which metaphor should be your focus?
Why is your finish line only as good as your start line? How are these two metaphors connected? Is sprint a metaphor for any short and speedy spell of running? When are you likely to short circuit the circuit metaphor? Can stymie be a metaphor for frustrating your initiatives totally, stem and root? When does your food turn into a mulligan stew?
How did the common defence strategy of sandbagging turn into a biiliards metaphor? Marathon and steeplechase - which is a metaphor for endurance and which is a metaphor for perseverance? Is volley a metaphor for a hail of compliments? Should a salvo surprise and sear to be a metaphor? When do you turn gambit into a weasel metaphor?
Why should chequered be a metaphor for our basic life philosophy? Which pawn metaphor is extremely negative? When do you run the risk of stalemating the stalemate metaphor? When does stalemate on ground become a diplomatic checkmate?
All metaphoric googlies! Springing nasty surprises and visiting you unannounced! Do not get caught off guard!! With Not the End of Metaphoric Madness, you need not feel checkmated. This Book 4 is sure to help you out of your metaphoric dilemmas. It will aso assist you in upholding metaphoric propriety and ensure you do not commit a serious metaphoric faux pas.
- Editor:
- Harish Kumar
- Lansat:
- Jul 7, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781310835551
- Format:
- Carte
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Not the End of Metaphoric Madnes - Harish Kumar
Not the End of
Metaphoric Madness
The Series Ends
Not the Madness
Harish Kumar
Copyright © 2015 by Harish Kumar
From the Year of publication: 2015
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Published by Harish Kumar at Smashwords
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Table of Contents
A Few Words about the Book
Metaphors from Cricket
Googly
Pitch
Hat Trick
Bouncer
Innings
Metaphors from Football
Dribble
Kick
Goal Post
Whistle
Referee-Umpire
Metaphors from Racing
Sprint
Finish Line
Circuit
Start Line
Homestretch
Metaphors from Golf and Billiards
Cue
Tee
Stymie
Mulligan
Sandbagging
Metaphors from Athletics
Anchor
Baton
False Start
Marathon
Steeplechase
Metaphors from Tennis and Badminton
Volley
Serve
Racket
Salvo
Game-Set-Match
Metaphors from Chess
Gambit
Chequered
Pawn
Stalemate
Checkmate
A Few Words about the Book
You are now holding in your hands Not the End of Metaphoric Madness, the fourth and final book in the Metaphoric Madness series.
This metaphoric culmination deals with how simple words from what you play – cricket, football, racing, golf and billiards, athletics, tennis and badminton, and chess – turn into mesmerising metaphors. In all, that is 35 new game and sporting word- metaphors for the seven days of your fourth week, five for each day of the week.
Metaphors are word pictures. They are vignettes of verbal pleasure, even for those who do not have the privilege of eye sight. The 35 word-pictures profiled in this book have been cherry-picked to represent the sheer joy of metaphorisation.
Your creative mind has vast and unlimited potential to transform every word in our English, the living language of metaphors, into an enchanting metaphor. And this book is celebration of the joy such a transformation brings in you, in your words and in your usual and unusual communication.
Metaphor, in itself, is a metaphor. Metaphor is a nice metaphor for visualisation. Take the metaphors out, you will realise how colourless are your words and how imageless is your communication.
In what is a labour of love, Not the End of Metaphoric Madness brings to an end an affair with word-metaphors that began more than a year ago. But, that end is only for now. For, I am sure this madness will never cease. That is the rationale behind this book’s sub-title The series ends, Not the madness.
Without this madness, the greater madness of letters and literature, and the greatest madness of life, will cease to be madness, the buzzing catch-all metaphoric euphemism. For once, obsession becomes sobriety. For once, passion becomes philosophy. For once, madness becomes sanity.
As you turn simple words into ageless metaphors, you ensure every word of yours gets pictorially engraved in the galleries of mind. And you become audible even to those who are hard of hearing.
The more metaphor-tuned you are, the greater are the chances that your every word transforms into timeless moving images on the mental canvas. I hope this 4-volume Metaphoric Madness series, and Not the End of Metaphoric Madness in particular, will cross and traverse your many mental miles to find a permanent residence in an indestructible niche in your memory.
Metaphors from Cricket
Those who play cricket are supposed to be gentlemen, men in gentle white flannels. Today, neither the men are necessarily gentle nor their flannels are necessarily white. Yet, cricket continues to contribute scores of words for lay metaphoric vocabulary. Wonder, most cricket words double up as nice metaphors and are as exciting as a close and fiercely-fought match.
Just like the legendary game, cricket metaphors are unending. You may ask a fellow businessman what his batting average is, meaning what his average earnings are. You may even question a shifty party colleague who he is batting for. Finally, you may bowl a nice lady over with your charms.
As a businessman, you may call it quits and draw the stumps with an eye on public or social work. Or, willy-nilly get clean bowled by a tenacious taxman who comes up with a steep retro-demand based on some strange arithmetic.
As an actor, you may have a good innings, remaining not-out for a long time, going on and on. Simply speaking, successful. Why, with three box-office hits bursting the charts successively, you may even go on to score a nice hat trick. You may then even be right in not trusting people who swing both ways, like those bowling bullies who are unpredictable.
Well, if you bank on such shifty swingers, you may end up batting on a sticky wicket, using again a cricket metaphor. We may go on and on like this with cricket words, turning them all into sporty word-pictures. Thank heavens, almost all cricket words are pictorial and thus double up as workaday metaphors for usual and routine communication.
This versatility of cricket words owes largely to history, to yesteryear’s colonial supremacy of the English and to their penchant for playing cricket out in the sunny open in their colonies, both for pleasure and power. Thus, cricket words effortlessly passed into common currency as live metaphors.
You may quote George Bernard Shaw’s sceptic saying about eleven fools playing. But, remember cricket has gifted the world of communication much more than the meagre eleven street-smart metaphors.
As you play cricket in the true spirit of the game, you foster great team spirit. Thus, when you use cricket words as work-a-day metaphors, you go on to foster classic metaphoric camaraderie and end up saying things with a touch of equity. So, cricket metaphors do create communication cousins with a historical link.
Well, more than 125 countries play cricket and there are just 107-odd International Cricket Council-recognised countries having their own national cricket teams. But, the whole world (196 countries) loves to play the game of cricket metaphors.
With free sprinkling of cricket metaphors in your diction, you make your communication sporty, vivid and vivacious. Not surprising that cricket metaphors are popular with almost every one on this globe. Why, even among non-English-speaking populace.
Thus, the expression "it is not cricket", to mean it is not just and fair, has become quite universal. You hear it being spoken in lands that do not play and follow the game of cricket. And you hear it being used in reference to matters that are not related to cricket.
So, here is an appeal to the users of this final volume in the Metaphoric Madness series: Do not turn away from using cricket words as regular metaphors. Like them, adopt them, use them in your daily writing-speaking and make all of them work for you.
Remember cricket words come packed in colourful metaphoric ribbons of vivacity, sportsmanship, team spirit, camaraderie and celebration of universal companionship.
In the following pages, you will read in length, with published examples, on how common cricket words - googly, pitch, hat trick, bouncer and bowled – turn into handy and handsome metaphors.
For a moment, just before jumping on to the metaphoric googly, pause and ponder over these two vital and pertinent issues:
One, test cricket is a testing duel, both in terms of time and stamina, strategy and strength. But, doesn’t it test viewers’ patience? Doesn’t it face the test of survival these days, courtesy other shorter and snappier formats?
Well, whatever the format, cricket itself is a metaphor for fairness in human dealings. Perhaps, that is why cricket has not forfeited its epithet gentleman’s game. What follows logically is this: by itself cricket has become an enduring and eternal metaphor for fair play.
Two, when you hear all these cricket metaphors, don’t you feel like being thrown right into a vantage position to be able to watch a match live and relate that first-hand experience to what is being told to you?
Let me take here the liberty of liberally employing cricket metaphors to conclude this preamble. Use your bat deftly to tackle all the five sexy cricket metaphor deliveries you are about to face in the coming pages. This is your goal right now: stay at the wicket to score metaphoric runs. Good luck!
Googly
Let the word googly not surprise you. In cricketing parlance, a googly is a sort of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg-spinner. Appreciate that as a metaphor googly is a nice contribution from cricket.
You need to know in and out the googly metaphor and understand its usage rules so that you are able to employ the metaphor effortlessly as a common use-everywhere and use-anytime word picture. And avoid the kind of abusage googly is often put through.
It is essential
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