Examples of the Conduit Metaphor.
* “Try as I might, I just can’t get the idea ACROSS to her.”
* “I’m TAKING the idea of the conduit metaphor FROM Reddy’s essay.”
* “Jerry Weinberg said consultants should GIVE AWAY their best ideas for free.”
* “It’s hard to PUT the idea INTO words.”
* “The ideas COME too fast and furious to follow.”
* “His aside was PREGNANT with meaning.”
* “That claim is WITHOUT meaning.”
* “You OVERLOOKED the whole point of the essay.”
* “You need to get your ideas OUT THERE, where they might do some good.”
* “Get her started, and the ideas will just POUR OUT OF her.”
* “Let me SET my thoughts DOWN ON paper.”
* “As I drove Dawn to New Orleans for her board certification exam, she was CRAMMING in the passenger seat the whole time.”