35. Buildings in metaphors

35. Buildings in metaphors

1. cement

   • to make relationships stronger
     • Let's have a drink together to cement our partnership

2. brick wall

   • barrier
     • When I tried to find out what had happened to my tax claim, I came up against a brick wall

3. ceiling

   • a limit to smth
     • They put a ceiling of twenty thousand pounds on the redundancy payment

4. roof

   • The roof fell on my word when she died
   • go through the roof
     • if prices go throgh the roof they increase in a rapid uncontolled fashion
     • If a person goes through the roof, he/she loses their temper
     • Hit the roof
       • lose one's temper
         • The teacher will hit the roof when she sees what we've made of this work

5. Tower

   • distance from ordinary people
   • ivory tower
     • Academics are often criticided for living in their ivory towers
   • tower of strength
     • extremely strong in an emotional rather than physical sense
       • Our friends were a tower of strength when our house burnt down
   • tower above
     • oustandingly tall/ outstanding in some other positive way
       • Jack towers above all his classmates although he is actually one of the youngest pupils

6. ENTRANCE

   • gateway to
     • provide access
       • A degree in law is a gaeway to a well-paid job
     • door
       • Falling his final exams closed/shut a lot of doors for him
         • Knowing several languages opens doors when it comes to finding work
           • The new century gives the opportunity to close the door on our past and make a fresh start
       • through/by the back door
         • unofficially
           • Joe came into the business by the back door - the manager knew him from university
   • Key
     • role
     • dicision
     • reason
     • difference
     • element
     • factor
     • feature
     • issue
     • moment
     • part
     • point
     • question