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Chapter 5
• Plant Metaphors
• and
• Food Metaphors
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Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen
By Don L. F. Nilsen
And Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Ambiguous Fruit
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Farming and Gardening MetaphorsHay | Straw | Stick | Fruit
Hay is hewn (cut)
Hayseed (hick)
Haywire
Hit the hay (go to bed)
Make hay while the sun shines
Draw straws
Last straw
Strewn
Soda straw
Straw boss
Straw that broke the camel’s back
Straw vote
Strawberries
Drum sticks
Fiddle sticks
Glue stick
Lipstick
Stick of gum
Stick of wood
Stickers (things that stick)
Fructose
Fruit of the Loom (underwear)
Fruitful
Fruition(Nilsen & Nilsen 107-112)
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Grain
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Straw/Strewn
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Cultivating MetaphorsMuck | Cultivate | Thresh | Grain
Muck (mud, manure, straw)
Mucking around
Political muck raking
Cultivated (sophisticated)
Cultivating talents
Cultivator
Cults
Culture
High or low threshold
On the threshold of something
Threshing around
Grainy film
Granite
Granulated peanuts
Hand grenade
Ingrained
Pomegranate(Nilsen & Nilsen 107-110)
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Alleen and Tree Animals
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Personification
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TreesBranch | Trunk | Log | Leaves
Branch library
Branching out
Family tree
Out on a limb
Tree diagram
Elephant trunk
Human trunk
Steamer trunk
Trunk call (British)
As easy as rolling off a log
Backlog
Log book
Log cabin
Logging onto a computer
Log jam
Logrolling
Aluminum foil
Foliage
Foliated rocks
Literary foil(Nilsen & Nilsen 110-112)
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Dr. PepperA Pun
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Vegetables
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Personified Vegetables
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Explain the Connections• Bush, Bushy Hair, Ambush, Bushings, Bushwacked, Beating
around the bush• Deadwood, Firing deadwood• Fruit, Fruitful discussion• Leaf, Table Leaf, Leaflet• Mushroom, Mushroom cloud• Papyrus, Paper• Plant, Planting someone in the audience, Planting an idea in
someone’s head• Stem, Stemware glasses• Stump, Pencil stump, Leg stump, Stumping for votes• Tulip bulb, Light bulb
(Nilsen & Nilsen 113-114)
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More Plant MetaphorsField | Hedge | Stem
Center fielder (baseball)
Farm team
Farming out children
Field Marshall
Out in left field
Professional field
Hedge hog
Hedgerow (trees)
Hedges (maybe…)
To hedge a bet
From stem to stern
Pipe Stem
Stem-cell research
Stem of a watch
Stem ware(Nilsen & Nilsen 128)
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Spring PlantsGiuseppe Arcimboldo
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Explain the Metaphors
• Blooming idiot• Branching out• Budding genius• Fertile imagination• Putting down roots• Lotus Spread Sheet• Young sprout
(Nilsen & Nilsen 113)
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Plant-Color Metaphors
• Apricot
• Black Forest Cake
• Cherry red
• Coffee
• Orange
• Peach
• Strawberry blond
(Nilsen & Nilsen 116)
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Good and Bad Food | Hot and Cold Food
Good and bad taste
Old fashioned taste
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Bitter experience
Sour experience
Spicy experience
Sweet experience
Giving someone a cold shoulder
Hot number
Quitting cold turkey
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Peas porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot…
Nine days old
(Nilsen & Nilsen 117)
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The Potato Family
• Well, Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other.
• They finally got married and had a little sweet potato, which they called “Yam.”
• When they told Yam the facts of life they warned her about going out and getting half-baked, and become a “Hot Potato,” and end up with some Tater Tots.
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• Yam said not to worry. “No Spud will get me into the sack and make a rotten potato out of me.”
• “But on the other hand, I also won’t stay home and become a Couch Potato.”
• Yam exercised so that she wouldn’t become skinny like her Shoestring cousins.
• When she went to Europe she was told to watch out for those hard-boiled guys from Ireland.
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• She was also to watch out for the greasy French Fries.
• When she went out West, she was told to watch out for the Indians, so she wouldn’t get scalloped.
• Yam worked hard to be high class, because she didn’t want to become just another Frito Lay.
• She went to Idaho Potato University so that when she graduated she’d be in the Chips.
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• But in spite of all this, one day Yam came home and announced that she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.
• Yam’s parents were mortified.
• “You can’t marry Tom Brokaw,” they said, because he’s just a…
• He’s just a…
• He’s just a…
• A COMMONTATER!
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Hole MilkA Pun
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Sweetness• Honey• Sugar and sugar daddy• Sickeningly sweet novel• Sweet cheeks• Sweet lemon (ct. “Sour grapes”)• Sweet Pee (Olive Oil’s daughter)• Sweet potatoes• Sweet and sour pork• Sweet spot (tennis racket or golf club)• Sweety pie• Sweetheart
(Nilsen & Nilsen 117)
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Literal vs. MetaphoricalSour | Bitter | Salty
Sour cream
Sour grapes
Sour note (in music)
Sourball (candy)
Sauerkraut
Sourpuss
Ascerbic wit
Bitter battle
Bittersweet chocolate
Embittered person
Stay to the bitter end
To ascerbate something (make it worse)
Bonneville Salt Flats
Earn one’s salt (pay)
Old salt (sailor)
Salad
Salami
Salsa
Salt of the earth
Salty story
Sauce
Sausage
Working in the salt mines(Nilsen & Nilsen 118-119)
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Egg Metaphors
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Egg Potential
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Egg PlantA Pun?
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Eggs | Meat | Apples | Bread
Egg carton mattress
Eggshell (color)
Hatch a plan
Hatchback (car)
Oval office
(cf. F l’oeuf & ovaries)
Robin’s egg blue
Baloney
Beef up
Carnival
Mardi Gras
Meat and potatoes
Minced meat
Nut meats
Pork barrel legislation
SPAM (SPiced hAM)
To beef about something
The Big Apple
The Little Apple (Manhattan, KS)
Macintosh
Pomegranate
Pomme de terre (potato)
Pommel horse
Pommel (on saddle)
Pomona, CA
Bread Pan (tautology)
Breadline
Breadwinner
Companion
Company
Lady (hlaf diga)
Lord (hlaf weard)
Panatela cigar
Pantry(Nilsen & Nilsen 119-121)
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Explain the following cooking metaphors
• Cooking someone’s goose• Getting embroiled in a family quarrel• Grilling a witness• Grub, Grubstake & Grubby• Mincing words• Parched thirst• Peeling off three twenties• Raising the heat on gangs• Resentment simmering and then coming to a boil• Salt and pepper beard• Scuttlebut, scuttle a ship & scuttle a project• Slicing a golf ball
(Nilsen & Nilsen 106, 123)
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Explain the following
• He bit off more than he could chew.• He ate it up, hook, line and sinker.• He had to be spoon fed.• She has a lot on her plate.• She’s all sweetness and light.• That left a bitter taste in her mouth.• That’s a fine kettle of fish.
(Nilsen & Nilsen 124)
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Grounding:Explain what the following have in common
• Meat roast-Celebrity roast• Chocolate mousse-Mousse for your hair• Gravy-gravy train• Grease-Grease the movie• Honey-honey moon• Red herring sardine-red herring metaphor• Pasta-paste• Hash-to hash out a problem• Spice-spicy movie• Parched corn-parchment
(Nilsen & Nilsen 106)
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Explain the following Proverbs
• Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.• Don’t put all of your Basques in one exit.• He jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.• He spilled the beans.• He’s nutty as a fruit cake.• He wants everything, from soup to nuts.• It’s as easy as pie.• She’s upper crust.• She’s buttering him up.• It’s like comparing apples and oranges.• Life is a box of chocolates.• That’s how the cookie crumbles.• There’s no accounting for taste.• You have to crack some eggs to make an omelet.
(Nilsen & Nilsen 122)
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!Edgy Food Metaphors• The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
• Cottage cheese thighs (overweight person)
• Cracker (WASP)
• Cut the cheese
• Pop the cherry
• Rice burner (Asian car)
• Wiener(Nilsen & Nilsen 105)
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!!Chauncy (the) Gardnerin Jerzy Kozinski’s Being There
• “It is possible for everything to grow strong and there is plenty of room for growth, but first some things must wilt and die.
• Some plants do well in the sun and some do well in the shade.
• As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and will be well in the garden.
• In the garden we have spring and summer, but then we get fall and winter.”
(Kozinski 106)
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!!!Other Materials
Kozinski, Jerzy. Being There (a DVD starring Peter Sellers), 1979.
My Blackberry’s not working.
http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm
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Reference
Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source Based Approach. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
www.ablongman.com/nilsen