Examples of Love metaphors:
Love is a nutrient: I am starved for love.
Love is a journey: It’s been a long, bumpy road.
Love is a unity of parts: We’re as one. They’re breaking up. We’re inseparable.
Love is a bond: There is a close tie between them.
Love is a fluid in a container: She was overflowing with love.
Love is fire: I am burning with love.
Love is an economic exchange: I’m putting more into this than you are.
Love is a natural force: She swept me off my feet.
Love is a physical force: I was magnetically drawn to her.
Love is an opponent: She tried to fight her feelings of love.
Love is a captive animal: She let go of her feelings.
Love is war: She conquered him. Love is insanity: I am crazy about you.
Love is a social superior: She is completely ruled by love.
Love is rapture/a high: I have been high on love for weeks.
The object of love is a small child: Well, baby, what are we gonna do?
The object of love is a deity: Don’t put her on a pedestal. He worships her.
-Zoltán Kövecses: Metaphor and Emotion in The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
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