There is the story of Jonah inside the whale, and art is a thing. So are metaphors. Maybe some english-speaking community uses "wolf surrounding a camp" to mean

There is the story of Jonah inside the whale, and art is a thing. So are metaphors. Maybe some english-speaking community uses "wolf surrounding a camp" to mean a person is in the belly of the beast, whatever the beast may mean. The thing with language is that it's flexible, ever-evolving, and people do come up with new uses all the time. That's why it's a challenge for AI to be considered generally intelligent when it comes to language use. Humans aren't merely consulting a dictionary when they talk. As Wittgenstein argued, meaning is use, and dictionaries are updated to reflect that use. Plants inside a lightbulb could come to symbolize green tech, or whatever. We can make up the meaning as we go along, and if enough people find it useful, it becomes part of the language.