analogy

The flying cars of “The Jetsons,” a futuristic animated sitcom that enchanted television audiences in the early 1960s, are “not a bad analogy,” Cox said.

On Symmetry he even resurrects Shape Of You's analogy of two bodies pulling together like magnets.

Under the circumstances, this analogy is a poor one, maybe even inappropriate, but that doesn’t make it less true: What Mayor Bowser and the District need is a “bad cop.”

Football analogies aside, the immediate challenge facing Reeves is the size of the gap in the public finances.

"It was the island of lost boys - I'm now 59 and I only just resonate to that analogy."