How Writers Extend Standard Metaphors; and how Val McDermid does
How artists extend or elaborate conventional metaphors was brought home to me forcefully and repeatedly while reading a detective novel Broken Ground[ii] by Val McDermid.
It’s a dog’s life (Part II). What does ‘It’s a ‘dog’s life’ mean? Good or bad?
I’m not quite sure what’s bitten me, but, I’ll be doggoned, I can’t stop nuzzling through all things linguistically canine. Previously, I‘ve looked at:…
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It’s a dog’s life. And the dogs go on with their doggy life.
Could ‘it’s a dog’s life’ be used refer to a pleasant lifestyle rather than a despised, downtrodden one? It would seem passing strange to…
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