Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

2. Transference based on metaphor is a likening of the object (phenomenon, action) of reality to another, which is associated with it on the basis of real or imaginable resemblance.

• 2. Transference based on metaphor is a likening of the object (phenomenon, action) of reality to another, which is associated with it on the basis of real or imaginable resemblance.
• E.g., in the PU to bend somebody to one’s bow meaning ‘to submit someone’ transference is based on metaphor, i.e. on the likening of a subordinated, submitted person to a thing (bow) a good command of which allows its owner to do with it everything he wants to.