Myleene Klass 'wipes the floor' with Ed Miliband

In which I initially thought The Telegraph had used inverted commas to denote that Ms Klass did not, in fact, actually use the would-be leader of the country to mop out her kitchen.

Alas (twice over)...

Perfectly bad militar-ism

Baudelaire, in Mon cœur mis à nu, warned us that journalists with a fondness for military metaphors were proving their un-warlike nature.

- Clive James, in The Monthly

Metaphor = truth

It is possible to find a metaphor for anything, an analogue: but the image is encountered, not found; it is an account of the poet's perception, the act of perception; it is a test of sincerity, a test of conviction, the rare poetic quality of truthfulness.

- George Oppen, courtesy of The Paris Review

Metafor Lanka: #813

Sri Lanka is a private bus where the driver has not come yet, and the conductor drives at high speed.

- Priyankarage Bandula Jayaweera

[With thanks to IS.]

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Similes are metaphorical; but are metaphors like similes?