“My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.” WorldStatesMotherFatherPolicyRegardAffairAidsBranchesDepartmentEconomistWorld Affairs Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.” FirstsMotherCommonPracticeExpressionSolutionsSightMetaphorAidsWitFeaturesSpeakersRespectableJamHaltConfrontingExpediencyHomelyMother Wit Author:Laura Riding