Christopher has difficulties coping with metaphors:- Text A... people often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphorsI laughed my socks off. He was the apple of her eye. They had a skeleton in the cupboard. We had a real pig of a day. The dog was stone dead.The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words μετα (which means from one place to another)...