Farming Metaphors

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Metaphor List Cooking Metaphors

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Farm: Adam joined the Kingston Frontenacs farm team. Professional sports talents are crops - nurtured and raised until profitable, then their talents harvested.

Seed: "The doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place, where my seed could find no purchase" (from "Raising Arizona", by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen). A womb is soil for an unborn child.

Plow/plough: We decided to plow through the bookkeeping. Daunting tasks are untilled, tough soil, which must be worked.

Come up: We'll see if any new job listings come up. Opportunities are sprouts.

Crop: A new crop of students entered the classroom. Students are raised to fruition in school.

Harvest: She decided to harvest her investment a few weeks early. An investment is planted, grows and must be harvested (A.K.A.: crystallized) to be complete.

Plant: The orator planted ideas in their fertile, young minds. Ideas are seeds from which greater things grow.

Sow: He sowed the seeds of discontent among the staff. Susceptible staff provide fertility for the growth of unrest.

Fruit: His ideas began to bear fruit. Outcome is the ultimate measure of worth for an idea.

Roots: His roots ran deep in the region. A family tree is physical, and takes up more soil as it grows older.

Soil: "The soil of a man's heart is stonier!" (from "Pet Sematary", by Stephen King). Love is seeded in the heart, and grows better in women than in men.

Fertile: Ms. Droopy had a fertile imagination. Imagination is the soil from which ideas sprout.

Barren: His face was a barren landscape of sorrow, parted by rivers of tears. Our face expresses how alive our soul is.

Sprout: After the phone call, a smile could be seen sprouting from the edges of his lips. (See above).

Bud: Their relationship had begun to bud again, after a long and desolate winter. Relationships have seasons, and may be reborn.

Market: He began to market himself as an author. One's talents are a harvest, presented for sale.

Blossom/Bloom: She had blossomed overnight, going from stinkweed to rose with but one sip of potion. He took another sip... Beauty is a flower that develops into being with time.

Flower: She was a flower, young and beautiful, bending gently in the ever changing winds of youth. (See above).

Hatch: They hatched a plan to turn Kingston City Hall into a fetid cesspool of corruption. Nobody noticed. A plan is an egg, which, if nurtured, will hatch into an independent being.

Ripe: He allowed the moment to ripen before asking for her hand in marriage. A moment is a fruit which may be picked, perhaps prematurely, and ripen.

Grow/growth: The markets experienced considerable growth until plagued by profiteering. Markets are crops that are vulnerable to damage by outside forces.

Pick: Pick from our wide selection of clothing styles! Shopping is a harvest, and we are consumers of clothes, despite their inedibility.

Bumper crop: A bumper crop of stories have sprouted from this news leak. A news leak is a seed - a kernel - from which further stories will grow into fruition.

See Also: Sensory Metaphors  Fishing Metaphors Metaphors of Space, Etc.

Metaphor List Cooking Metaphors