1.   As he watched it melt into a pile of mush, he thought it was a perfect metaphor for his life.

2.   A perfect metaphor for tomorrow, and all its promise.

3.   A perfect metaphor for the season may have been Richter vainly attempting to play the final two months on one good leg.

4.   Don King is a perfect metaphor for boxing.

5.   Electricity is the perfect metaphor for that easy faith.

6.   Fortunately for Tom Fox, the story of his little yellow water taxis no longer works as a perfect metaphor for his life.

7.   He was playing baseball for another day and he did not want it to end, a perfect metaphor for his nomadic career.

8.   Hercules is a perfect metaphor for men.

9.   I suppose that the weather in Hardy, the Brontes and so on is the perfect metaphor for the fickleness of fortune and the uncertainty of what may happen.

10.   In the meantime, the weather is a perfect metaphor for the proceedings.