metaphorical

In both songs, Swift is unapologetically petty, offering her foes a metaphorical bouquet of flowers thick with thorns.

Badu treated “Mama’s Gun” like a “metaphorical diary” — as she does with all of her music — allowing herself to release everything that she was experiencing in real time.

Tadpoles become toads, and, in tales such as this one, metaphorical toads can be — whether through will, chance, or wishes — transformed into something else.

Mr Ford said: "Originally Bagpuss was like your grandad, he was there in the metaphorical armchair telling you about his tales and adventures gone by."

Public opinion polls have shown that the party’s metaphorical church is struggling and fragile; its pews are thinning.