12 Disastrous Literal Interpretations of Metaphors
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#12 gatorboymike
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#11 Inffunny
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#10 Tim Babb
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#9 pinebear
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#8 mhensch
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#7 Anthony91h
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#6 maluba
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#5 Feltorn
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#4 digitaldonkeys
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#3 Luna Fortuna
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#2 Futility
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#1 Anyone
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I didn't understand all but three of these. I wish they would of at least wrote underneath the picture what the hell it is or an explanation.
ReplyCould someone explain #3? I'm incredibly arachnophobic and as soon as I saw a web I scrolled through it.
ReplySomeone was surfing the web.
Haha, I get number 9 now.
ReplyNone of these are metaphors. They're idioms. Someone didn't pay attention in English class.
Reply Hide All See All 7 Replies...ya know what...you are absoloutly correct...sadly, I didn't spot this either and I major in english.
hah
Since when are the two mutually exclusive? Yes, they may be idioms, but at least some of them (#11: "He had a heart of gold", for example) are most certainly metaphors, as well.
You need to enjoy life more :(
Go Outside.
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. :)
Give hamsterjelly a Medal of Honor!
Nope. Not one was actually funny. A few were somewhat clever, but it felt like I was solving riddles in a Highlights magazine, not laughing at internet comedity.
Replymaaaaan...yo ass.
Boo.
ReplyAlso, most of these aren't even interpretations; they would only be appropriate if the prompt were more like "If Common Idioms were Literally True." Because these aren't even metaphors.
f**k you guys.
Ha. It's funny because literally not one of these is a metaphor.
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Uhh, actually he's correct and you guys are idiots.... Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word. For example: "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
I think these were idioms.
They all sucked though.
Which one is a metaphor then? Fat_Corgi is totally right none of them are metaphors
Bear market isn't even an idiom for that matter
wow, really?
too much time on our hands... way... too... much...
Having a "heart of gold" is comparing one's heart, or emotional core, to the luster, purity, and preciousness of gold. Sounds like a metaphor to me.
Grade school English fail... Kevin you just explained what an idiom is, the metaphor version of having "a heart of gold" would be merely saying someone's "heart is gold" for bonus points the simile version would add the words like or as; "his heart is like gold"
I don't understand why #11 is so low on the list. And in what universe could #3 be considered "disastrous"?
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThese Cracked photoplasty contests are kinda lame.
If she's got aids or cancer, getting a prescription for laughter would be pretty distrous for her and her family, don't ya think?
sense doctors obviously can only diagnose one sickness at a time.
@MatthewCrosby: I agree. We need some doctors who are less sensible.
#1: Dog and pony show. Why are they female and wearing bathing suits?
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesGotta make a belated edit here. I assume "dog and pony show" is a presentation of some type, right? Still don't understand the gender and the bathing suits. Is the problem my sheltered upbringing?
I think the bathing suit thing is to get attention to the entry. Hey, sex sells after all.
@belle, a "Dog and Pony Show" is a presentation that is either deceptive or a complete waste of time; for instance, when a V.I.P. visits a company's office, and everyone stops actually doing anything constructive so they can do things that look good for the visitor. Ergo, a strip show with dog and horse faced strippers would be a complete waste of time; it works on a couple of levels, which I didn't realize until I started this explanation.
its also a play on a "donkey show"..which is usually a sex thing where women do sexual things to a donkey..
if you go to see a girly show, you get girls in not much clothing, usually taking it off. dog and pony show, same thing, but with dogs and ponies rather than girls. my take on it anyway.
traviling strip shows.
Ok, this might not have been terribly funny, but seriously, if you are complaining that you can't figure out the phrases, that's pretty sad. They aren't that hard...
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesList them.
12. Bear Market
11. Heart of Gold
10. s**t-Faced
9. Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
8. Gravy Train
7. Costs an Arm and a Leg
6. Swept Her off Her Feet
5. Hell in a Handbasket
4. Surfing the Web
3. Laughter is the best medicine
2. Fighting Fire with Fire
1. A Dog and pony Show.
very easy
Dude, have you heard the news? There are other countries out there, and, no s**t, they even have different languages!!! Holy s**t!!!
eh...
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesUnh...
huh...
hrrgghhhh
OH GOD MY HEART
This was lame.
ReplyShhh! They'll hear you!
What? What?! No. 1 actually states the metaphor! That alone should disqualify it. The rest actually only used images and made you have to guess. Way better.
ReplyIs No. 2 playing with fire? Fighting fire with fire? If so that is weak. The list should have gone in the reverse order.
The only one that made me have to think for a moment was "swept off her feet," which was hard to get seeing as it was a crappy photoshop.
I thought 5 was "idle hands are the devil's workshop, so get back in the grocery isle woman!" very common saying where I'm from
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI've heard that idle hands do the devil's bidding and variants, but that one seems a bit out there.
Try "Hell in a handbasket"
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The Bear Market: Wall Street's answer to the Bear Calvary
ReplyNot particularly hilarious, but entertaining.
ReplyAlso, just because it needs to be said, these are all idioms, not metaphors. :[ This is basic, you guys.
Idioms ARE metaphors that have become popular.
No they aren't and you're an idiot for saying that. The closest that any of these comes to a metaphor is "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" which is a proverb. At least it's an analogy but it doesn't follow the form, "X is looking a gift horse in the mouth," or even "X is like looking a gift horse in the mouth," which is a simile.
#2 doesn't really have disastrous implications. "Fighting fire with fire" comes from the actual technique in which fire brigades do a controlled burn outside the perimeter of an encroaching wildfire so that when the wildfire reaches the controlled burn buffer it's effectively contained because there's nothing else close for it to burn.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI don't know, I guess the joke is fighting a building fire with fire?
He is a "fire fighter", which leads to "fighting fire with fire". It's more of the job title than the action.
Maybe the because it is a 'literal interpretation of a metaphor', in which case, instead of a reasonable using a time tested method to remove the fuel from an approaching fire, HE'S ATTACKING A FIRE WITH A FLAMETHROWER? Are you truly incapable of telling the difference, or just so high on your secret knowlege of fire fighting techniques that you just HAD to impress us with your grasp of a quite common fact?
I doubted you so I checked the etymology. You were close, but it actually originated in the 19th century when the back fire technique was used by settlers. Fact check the factoids you come across before sharing them.
12: Bear market (there should’ve been bulls there…)
Reply Hide All See All 6 Replies11: ?
10: ?
9: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
8: Riding the Gravy Train
7: Costs an arm and a leg
6: Swept off her feet
5: Hell in a handbasket
4: Surfing the web
3: Laughter is the best medicine
2: Fighting fire with fire
11. heart of gold
10. s**tfaced
I thought 11 was a "broken heart" or "heartbreak", but whatever.
or without a heart nice list tho
11 and 10 were the easiest, didn't really get 12 :(
Why should it have been a bull market instead of a bear market? Are rising stock prices inherently funnier, or are you just stating that you also know what a bull market is?
I think 10 is getting s**tfaced?
Gravy Train cracked me the f**k up! LMAO!
ReplyWhat. It didn't even look like gravy. It looked more like spew.
Looked like puke.
Uh, could someone explain numbers 6 and 4 to me?
ReplyI'm lost on 4, 6 is "swept off her feet"
4 is probably "surfing the web"