Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors (2nd edition)

Since its first edition in 1993 this weighty, remarkable collection of traditional metaphors has grown by “over 1,500 entries, as well as more information on first known usages and more ways to find entries”. Many of these new entries relate to technology and computing. A new introduction, speculating on the evolution of metaphor, has been added. This takes the view that metaphor is likely “to have originated directly from life, generated out of our natural experiences”. Children, farmers, priests, politicians, we all have had a hand in fashioning metaphor – “the one thing that cannot be learnt … ”. “A...