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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