Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

Let's face it, no matter what time of year it is and regardless of what and where we are, it is easy, correction, very easy for us to get bored. This is coming from an NYPD detective, conflict ...

Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the ...

Creating our own metaphors to stand up to cancer can help with the healing journey; own words can give us a better sense of control. Something that helped me during the healing year of my treatment ...

"You have to win the battle against depression", "what counts is not surrendering" and "this is not a short road" are examples of conceptual metaphors typically used to describe experiences and issues ...

Last time, I invited you to send me mixed metaphors and similar “ludicrous tangles of figurative language,” such as “He’s not the sharpest cookie in the jar.” The responses I got surprised me in a few ...