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sent Mr Putin ballistic?

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fansy
 
Reply Tue 20 Nov, 2007 01:41 am
The plan to put a missile-defence radar in the Czech Republic and a small number of interceptors in Poland, to deal with an emerging threat from Iran, at first sent Mr Putin ballistic.

How is this metaphor use? Is it a metaphor?
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Reply Wed 21 Nov, 2007 09:18 pm
Re: sent Mr Putin ballistic?
fansy wrote:
The plan to put a missile-defence radar in the Czech Republic and a small number of interceptors in Poland, to deal with an emerging threat from Iran, at first sent Mr Putin ballistic.

How is this metaphor use? Is it a metaphor?


He went off like a ballistic missile. The speed and the ferocity of his actions resembled a missile taking off.
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