Metaphors

a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is ourGod.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile 


Five verbal metaphors: All found from film:


-Casablanca "...the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."


-Michael "My wife has lips like a blowfish."


-All Quiet on the Western Front " And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."


-Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"


-The Big Chill "thats the great thing about the outdoors, its one giant toilet"

And know here are some pictures of metaphors