Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors
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The Use of Metaphors in English
Eating and drinking that is consuming things pop up as source metaphors more often than you might think. English speakers can certainly think about the metaphor that an object of affection is food. The conceptual metaphor was a nation is a flock or a people is a flock in ancient Middle East literature.
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