Metaphor Time

1) “Flirting with time”:

Not using one’s time wisely while your youth, strengths, and looks fade. While we are still young, using our time on the wrong pursuits.

“Time waits for no man.”

Popular Tom Petty Song “Flirting with time.”

2) “Beating a dead horse”:

Idiom that means a particular effort is a waste of time will not cause it to do any useful cause.

“You’re just spinning your wheels.”

3) “Just us chickens”:

Fable involving a chicken thief hiding in the henhouse. Farmer yells out, “Who is that making all that noise in the henhouse?” Sarcastic reply to the farmer, “Just us chickens!”

Otherwise, caught red-handed, “not a good time.”

Louis Jordan Song in the 40s, “Just us chickens.”

4) “Tip of the iceberg”

Cliché: Meaning: only the most visible part of a much bigger whole.

Idiom: Basically means the small part of a much larger situation or problem that remains hidden.

Metaphor, that all we can see is the tip of the iceberg, and that there is a depth beyond depth below it

“Not the whole enchilada.”

“More to time than meets the eye.”

5) “Once in a blue moon”

This poetic phrase refers to something extremely rare in occurrence.

“Timing is everything.” And is, “Almost as rare as chicken lips.”