metaphorical

But the practise is so uncommon these days that many living English speakers only think of it as metaphorical expression.

Moving the goalpost is a fallacy, My problem here is that I'm not sure which metaphorical goalposts you are referring to.

The concept is not that fish CAN'T recognize water, it's that it's more difficult for (metaphorical) fish that have always been immersed in water to notice water than for (metaphorical) animals that have seen both water and no water situations.

In a metaphorical sense, however, mining is also key to Australia's environmental history and to its current predicament.

About the only thing large masses of people ever seem to accomplish is throwing fuel into various metaphorical fires.

Story or no, in the metaphorical poker game of business, every new startup is a jack-high hand, at best.

Like, fire a (metaphorical) bullet full of scientific instruments directly into the surface of the planet.

Revelations is clearly metaphorical if you read up on the obvious contemporary references it contains.

While this article provides some metaphorical fish - I found the Design of everyday things helps you become a fisherman.

That same argument applies to the (metaphorical) claim that all power is solar, which is what I was poking fun at.

I can't figure out why the metaphorical use of 'dictate' in the first paragraph connects to the literal use in the latter.

That shirt is a metaphorical representation of Perl's visual style.

But if you want to define what's "safe" to allow in open discussion, then you're pointing your community towards the metaphorical grave.

I'm guessing what OP means by "Unix-y" is the metaphorical definition of Unix-y as in the oft-butchered Unix philosophy of small composable programs that operate on streams of data rather than playing by all of Unix's rules.

Yet another metaphorical example of how the top tier of "business leaders" and decision makers pander to the top tier of the richest individuals ("investors") and have absolutely no disincentive to continually gutting the middle class and young generation of US Citizen workers who are ridiculously underemployed at this time.