Edit Metaphor: Metaphor:ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
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Facts about "ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING"
| Entailment | acquired ideas (ingested food, ?, IDEAS ARE FOOD) + |
| Example | English (We pitched them the idea and they ate it right up., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (He's been feeding her lies all these years., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (This article is hard to digest., ?, ?, Reddy (1979), ?, ?, ?) + |
| Has source frame | Frame:Eating + |
| Has target frame | Frame:Thinking about + |
| Mapping | ideas (food, ?) +, thinker (eater, ?) + and considering (digesting, ?) + |
| Metaphor.Alias | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING (?) + |
| Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
| Metaphor.Level | General + |
| Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Eating + |
| Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Thinking about + |
| Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
| Related metaphor | is both a source and target subcase of (COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING, ?) +, is related to (IDEAS ARE FOOD, ?) +, is related to (CONSIDERING IS CHEWING, ?) +, is related to (ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING, ?) +, is related to (COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING, ?) +, is related to (TESTING THE NATURE OF IDEAS IS SMELLING OR TASTING, ?) + and is related to (UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING, ?) + |
| Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING#Is_example_of + |
