Metaphor is a common and delightful way to use language - you should try it sometime. It helps avoid the delusion that language has some inherent amount of rigo

Metaphor is a common and delightful way to use language - you should try it sometime. It helps avoid the delusion that language has some inherent amount of rigor or correctness. Or that grammatical rules actually exist unchanging rather than being rules written by people making them up from the types of language and speaker that they approve of.