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Chapter 6 Clothing Metaphors. Some clothing terms are ironic: Crowning someone could be part of a coronation Or you could crown someone by hitting them on the head. Many clothing terms are actions: Spinning or weaving yarns, Zip mail, Velcroid, Tanning Clothing analogies: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 6Clothing Metaphors
• Some clothing terms are ironic:– Crowning someone could be part of a coronation– Or you could crown someone by hitting them on the head.
• Many clothing terms are actions:– Spinning or weaving yarns, Zip mail, Velcroid, Tanning
• Clothing analogies: – Corset, bracelet, anklet, helmet– Muff, cuff, ruff– Shirt, skirt
(Nilsen & Nilsen 129)
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Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approach
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By Don L. F. Nilsen
And Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Interesting Etymologies• Foothills, outskirts and skirting an issue are marginal.• “Girdle” relates to the “girth” of a horse.• Having something up your sleeve• “Hood” of a car is British “Bonnet”• “Jackets” relates to “jacks” and “le jacquerie.”
– Book jacket, record jacket, Jack of all trades• “Pants” comes from the “pantaloons” of Commedia dell’arte
(16th C)• Sabotage (wooden shoes are “sabots”)• “Trunk” of a car is British “boot”• Wearing the pants in the family is sexist.
(Nilsen & Nilsen 130-133)
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Amedia Bedelia Literalizations
• Cape of Good Hope
• Coat of arms
• Drawing the drapes
• Hood of a car
• Outskirts of the city
• Ragtime music
• paint
(Nilsen & Nilsen 132)
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Body Coverings
Vest | Dress | Shirt | Unmentionables Bulletproof vest
Investiture
Investment
Vested interests
Vestry
Dresser
Dressing
Window dressing
Give someone the shirt of your back
Keep your shirt on
Lose one’s shirt
Shirttail relatives
Shirtsleeve atmosphere
Captain Underpants
Car bra
Jock
Skirt(Nilsen & Nilsen 132-134)
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Head CoveringsCap | Crown / Corona | Veil
Capital
Capstone
Capstone experience
Jar cap
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Hood
Hoodwinked
Throw your hat into the ring
Crown (money)
Crown caps (on bottles)
Crown Prince
Tooth crown
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Corollary argument
Corona Borealis (Northern Crown)
Corona cigars
Corona del Sol
Coronary arteries
Coronation
Coroner (represents the Crown)
Coronet braids
Bridal Veil Falls
Veiled threat
Veiling true feelings
Velic(Nilsen & Nilsen 134-136)
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Crown: GermanicCorona: Latin
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Royal Crown Cola
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Corona Metaphors
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Foot CoveringsBoot | Shoe | Sock | Spur
Being booted out
Bet your boots
Boot camp
Boothill
Bootlicker
Dying with your boots on
Brake shoes
Horseshoe
If the shoe fits…
Shoe horn
Shoe tree
Shoe string
Shoestring potatoes
Shoestring tackle
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox
Christmas stocking
Socking someone
Stocking cap
Wind sock
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Lawn hose
Larkspur
Railroad spur
Rooster spur
Spur gear
Spur of the moment
Spur ridge
Spurring someone on
Spurning someone(Nilsen & Nilsen 137-139)
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Personified Boots
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AccessoriesButton | Cuff | Apron
Belly button
Buttonholing someone
Campaign button
Hotbutton issue
Pushing someone’s buttons
Cuffing someone
Handcuffs
Speaking off the cuff
To handcuff someone
Tied to mother’s apron strings
Runway apron (in front of airport terminal)
Stage apron(Nilsen & Nilsen 140-143)
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More AccessoriesMuff | Glove | Lace
Earmuffs
Muffle
Muffler
Muff a ball
Muff a line
Muff an introduction
Foxglove plant
Glove compartment
Treat someone with kid gloves
Working hand in glove
Iron lacework
Lace a drink (liquor or poison)
Lacerated
Lacewing flies
Necklace
Shoelaces
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Still More AccessoriesBelt | Collar
Belt down a drink
Belt out a song
Belt someone
Beltline
Beltway
Bible Belt
Corn Belt
Fan belt
Hitting below the belt
Rust Belt (industrial states)
Sun Belt
Blue-collar job
Leather necks (Marines)
Minister’s dog collar
Pink-collar job
Police: To collar someone
White-Collar crime (Nilsen & Nilsen 142-143)
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Lace Metaphors
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Words from Clothing Makers
Fuller
Going for a spin
Homespun humor
Looming up
Snyder, Schneider
Shuttle (bus, cock)
Shuttle diplomacy
Spindle Shanks
Spider’s spineret
Spin City
Spin doctor
Spin-off company
Spinster
Tailspin
Taylor
Tucker
Weaver
Weber
Webb
Webster(Nilsen & Nilsen 145-152)
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Curlylocks: A Nursery Rhyme
• Curlylocks, Curlylocks, Wilt thou be mine?
• Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine,
• But sit on a cushion, And sew a fine seam,
• And feed upon stawberries, sugar, and cream.
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Fabric MetaphorsCotton | Silk | Wool
Cotton candy
Cottin-pickin’ job
Cottonmouth Moccassin
Peter Cottontail
Silk Route
Silk-tongued orator
Silky Terrier
Silk-stocking event
Silk stockings
Dyed in the wool attitudes
Woolgathering
Woolly aphids
Woolly bear
Woolly mamoth(Nilsen & Nilsen 147-149)
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More Fabric MetaphorsString | Thread
String bean X 2
String someone along
Stringent detergent
Stringent rules
Stringer (long timber)
Stringers (reporters)
Stringing words together
Stringy hair
Thread (on a bolt)
Thread of a story
Threadbare existence
Threading your way through a crowd
Threads (clothes)(Nilsen & Nilsen 147-149)
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Clothing Metaphors
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!Identifications & Etymologies
• Arachne and Athena
• Penelope and Ulysses• --------------• Chintzy Chintz (cloth w/shiny surface)
• Corduroy (cords of the king)
• Ends: at loose ends, making ends meet
• Subtle sub + tela (cloth)
• Text, texture L Texere (to weave) (Nilsen & Nilsen 150-151)
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!Sewing Metaphors• Amending the constitution• Biased• Binding legislation• Border crossings• Bordering on embarassment• Canvassing a neighborhood• Fabric of someone’s life• Fabrication (lie)• Fringe benefits• Fringe group• On the fringes• Tearing or ripping into an opponent
(Nilsen & Nilsen 152-153)
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!!More Sewing Metaphors• All tied up• Denouement• Hemming and Hawing• Needling someone• On pins and needles• Patch someone through (telephone)• Patterns of behavior• Pin money• Seamy side of life• Tailoring a class
(Nilsen & Nilsen 154-155) • and• You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear .
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!!!Bursa/Purse Metaphors
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!!!Bursa/Purse Metaphors
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Reference
Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source Based Approach. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
www.ablongman.com/nilsen