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CONTAINER OF CONTENT, and the tongue, a means of speaking, is CONTENT. The
idiom ‗To hold your tongue‘ (If you hold your tongue, you keep silent even though you
want to speak) reflects the situation when content, the tongue, is held tight, thus it is not
able to speak. Another idiom with ‗the tongue‘ component - ‗On the tip of your tongue‘
(If a word is on the tip of your tongue, you know the word, but you just can't quite
remember it at the moment) reveals a situation when the tongue is not kept and can
physically move under the definite condition.
The HEART is typically associated with emotional spheres, and metonymically
motivated as HEART FOR FEELINGS. It also has an image-schema of a
CONTAINER FOR CONTENT; the content is a range of emotions people usually
have towards each other. The idioms ‗Wear your heart on your sleeve‘ (Someone
who wears their heart on their sleeve shows their emotions and feelings publicly) and
‗Eat your heart out‘ (If someone tells you to eat your heart out, they are saying they
are better than you at something) refer to the above mentioned concepts: if the heart
is worn on the sleeve, it is exposed to the outer world and feelings are not hidden; and
if other people are better than you at something, you would better eat your heart not
to display bad emotions concerning that fact. In the idiom ‗Butterflies in your
stomach‘ (The nervous feeling before something important or stressful is known as
butterflies in your stomach) the stomach is a CONTAINER OF CONTENT,
butterflies in the stomach is not typical content: by flying in the air they bring
instability into the container and break the solidity of the container. The idiom refers
to image-schemas of SECURITY/ STABILITY IS SOLID GROUND,
INSECURITY/ INSTABILITY IS AIR. Instability and insecurity lead to the feeling
of nervousness and concern which will last until butterflies stay in the stomach.
In the idiom ‗Pay through the nose‘ (If you pay through the nose for something,
you pay a very high price for it) the nose is connected to the image-schema, or the
source-content, of PATH through which the air passes; it is related to notions of
STATE OF BEING ON THE PATH FOR THE STATE OF BEING IN
MOVEMENT and to MOVEMENT ALONG THE PATH TOWARDS
DESTINATION. If the passage through the path is difficult, the movement is
hindered, and the destination is not reached. Also, the nose is related to the source-
concept of LIFE: the movement of the air along the path, i.e. the nose, implies staying
alive as far as the air is a must condition of life. So, if the path is blocked, i.e. you pay
through the nose, then, it may cost you difficulties, or even death.
The idiom ‗All ears‘ (If someone says they're all ears, they are very interested in
hearing about something) also refers to the notions of conceptual metaphors STATE
OF BEING ON THE PATH FOR THE STATE OF BEING IN MOVEMENT and to
MOVEMENT ALONG THE PATH TOWARDS DESTINATION. The sound goes
in and out along the path, the ears as a means, to reach the destination, and when the
path is free, the movement is easy and fast.
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