The phrase "an onion is a rose of water" is an example of metaphor, where an onion is being compared to a rose through the symbol of water. It suggests that the layers of an onion hold a beauty and depth similar to that of a rose.
Metaphor. Apex
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Sounds Greek to me
Onion is a symbol and often a metaphor quoted as life since each phase in our life in the past is lost like the layers of the onion peel to reveal a new fresh phase of joy , or sadness when we weep.
Walter Lippmann uses the metaphor of a "condensed newspaper" to describe culture. He compares culture to a selection of significant events and ideas that are curated by society and passed down to future generations, much like how a newspaper selects and condenses important news for its readers.
It means an onion is a metaphor for life when the past phase is peeled away to reveal a new fresh layer in life where at some point along the process of entering new phases we face sadness and weep.
Tuisco Greiner has written: 'The new onion culture' -- subject(s): Onions
peel an onionThis metaphor is often used to describe an enlightened approach to problem solving: By methodically removing each layer of the onion, one is able to appreciate the complexities at each level as you eventually reach the core where you can objectively define the problem.
What Horace was referring to was the fact that the Romans had conquered Greece, but the Greek culture had been adopted in the process, overcoming the Roman. It is a correct statement, if it is taken as metaphor.
An XL onion, or an onion who decided to not be an onion anymore.
Its a metaphor