What is metaphor?
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an
object or action to which it is not literally applicable. The
comparison
is implied. That is why a metaphor is often called an implied
simile.
The curfew tols the knell of parting day.
-Gray
He has not a shade of doubt about it.
I drank delight of battle with my peers.
- Tennyson
I will drink life to the lees.
- Tennyson
This is a lame excuse.