![]() You would feel that it’s stretched and squeezed all over the place. It can put an image in the mind of a stomach that has been tied up like a knot, which you’d think would really hurt. This metaphor us used when people feel like their stomach is really sore. You might get to the end of the day, take your shoes off, and say “ohhh, my feet are killing me!”īut it doesn’t just have to be your feet.įor example, you could say that your shoulder or neck are killing you if they’re giving you strong pain that’s distracting you from anything else. ![]() This one is very common at the end of a hard day’s work on your feet, or a long hike. No one is actually being killed (we hope!) But rather, you can use this phrase to express the idea that you’re in agony over something. You might be feeling the pain, but also ignoring it and pretending it isn’t even effecting you.įor example, if you were hurt in the knee in a football game, you might make a conscious choice to deal with it and ‘play through the pain’, meaning to continue playing the game despite it.Ī similar metaphor is “swallow your pride”, meaning to be humble and even accept humiliation. Rather, it means to cover-up any pain in order to get on with life. Swallowing pain doesn’t usually have anything to do with pain in the throat. Sometimes you might hear people also referring to this sort of pain as “like a hot butterknife”. It’s usually sharp and overwhelming and feels like hard physical pressure. ![]() It means that your pain feels like something is stabbing you in your body. Stabbing pain doesn’t mean that someone has stabbed you with a knife. Or, when you have a headache so bad that you can’t work for the day. But it does mean that it’s figuratively holding you down.Įxamples of when this might happen include: When you have leg splints so you can’t go for a run. It doesn’t mean the pain is literally reaching out with its invisible hand and preventing you from doing things. If you are in so much pain that you can’t get out of bed or do things you want to do, you can say “this pain is holding me back”. Conclusion A List of Pain Metaphors, Idioms and Similes 1.
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