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4Bob Dylan said the answer my friend is “Blowin’ in the ____”: The answer symbolizes elusive solutions to social issues and injustices
7Mid-way through the book of Daniel. During a party, thrown by the Belshazzar, the grandson of King Nebuchadnezzar, a large hand appears and writes four words on the wall. The writing on the ____ would declare the end of the Babylonian Empire and the oncoming invasion from the Medo-Persians that very night.
8Belshazzar engaged in revelry because he thought he had many more years to live. Instead, his life was put out that night.
11“I am the way, the truth, and the life” Jesus said. A triplet of the subject of this puzzle! And the truest, most literal thing anybody has ever said
14Pink Floyd told us, One day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. THIS is depicted as a relentless force and reflects the existential fear of wasted life and missed opportunities
15They’ll use a pair of clubs to beat the garden tools
18A metaphor is a word or a few words that form an image, reflecting the point you’re making in figurative rather than _______ language
19“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron one has descended across the continent.”
20And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so (What One) shall be partly strong and partly fragile
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1“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of this injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.”
2Metaphors make our words paint pictures in people’s minds. Use metaphors, and you will be head and THESE above other speakers
3She’s a tough old fowl ”
5It’s set up like a deck of
6The Eagles – “Hotel California”: The hotel symbolizes the (pursuit of pleasure; engaged in Godless, sensually self-indulgent) lifestyle of California in the 1970s and the trap it became
9Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”: The burning ring of fire (metaphoriclly demstrates) the all-consuming nature of passionate love.
10“He’s two sheets to the wind” this many is really drunk
12A man in Luke, realizes he has an abundance of crops, makes plans to build even bigger barns, so he can kick back and enjoy every ounce of hedonism and sloth he can get. Little did he know that night God would ask for, demand back and his soul will be THIS that night
13We chew on ideas, we digest THESE
16Consider what we’ve done with computers and the Internet. We talk about the web, which is a metaphor, as is THIS the web
17The Doors – “Light My Fire”: Lighting a fire symbolizes igniting THIS and desire within a relationship