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A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word is used in a non-literal way. For example, if someone is very annoying, you can say, “You drive me up the wall!” This doesn’t mean that you are literally driving on a wall, but it expresses your feelings using other words. In this lesson, I will teach you some useful English idioms and metaphors, all of them containing the word “wall”. We will go over expressions like “wall to wall”, “fly on the wall”, “to have your back to the wall”, “to see the writing on the wall”, “walls have ears”, and more. Metaphors and idioms are an important part of English, and this lesson will help you understand and use some very common expressions in your everyday conversations. Take the quiz on this lesson:
