JUNE IS METAPHOR AWARENESS MONTH Wallflowers, such as Erysimum cheiri, have been planted in gardens since the 16th century but are typically seen clinging to a stone wall or cliff. When people started using “wallflower” to mean a woman who stayed on the sidelines at a dance (1820), they were making a pretty metaphor, a gardener’s metaphor. When non-gardeners picked up the term, so to speak, never having seen a wallflower, the expression lived on but the metaphor died. cabinetofcuriosities-greenfingers.blogspot/2012/06/wildlife-on-walls-6-wallflowers.html
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:05:04 +0000
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