Subject: OT: Metaphors!
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Posted on: 2009-07-22 07:35:00 UTC

(Cross-posted from my LJ:)

I need a favour, from as many of you as possible, and I think it should be fun: How many different metaphors can you think of which describe an emotion?

I'm looking for things like:

Anger: blow your lid, explode, boiling blood...

Sadness: Feeling blue, down...

And so on.

I ask this particularly of those of you who speak languages other than English, because part of my project is about how these metaphors (such as heat representing anger) are cross-cultural and multi-lingual.


Can anyone lend a hand?

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