Categories: Comparisons
An example of a scientific concept used a metaphor:
"Alfred Swaine Taylor is one of the ancestors of modern forensic science: he is part of its very DNA."
Helen Barrell (2017) Fatal Evidence. Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the dawn of forensic science. Pen & Sword.
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
To refer to some thing's very DNA could probably be considered to use a modern idiom.
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