An example of simile in public science discourse:
"So to avoid easily tripping over into too much or too little [of a hormone], you need to have a very fine system to control everything and keep it stable. And so I think what we have developed is essentially proteins that will carry and protect those hormones… you've got proteins that will reduce it if it is a little too much, that will change the level depending upon your age or your puberty or pregnancy, so you need a fine tune system to keep everything, basically it's like a Ferrari, you have to keep everything in sync."
Prof. Sadaf Farooqi
Prof. Sadaf Farooqi (Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge) was speaking on an episode ('Hormones') of BBC's In Our Time
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