That’s not a metaphor. A dumpster fire is an idiom meaning a situation where something is FUBAR. It’s not a literal dumpster fire... Idioms are extremely commo

That’s not a metaphor. A dumpster fire is an idiom meaning a situation where something is FUBAR. It’s not a literal dumpster fire... Idioms are extremely common in English, and they’re common in other languages as well. Try talking for a week without any idioms at all and you’ll see what I mean.