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Why is 'By the time I finished it snowed so much that you could barely tell I did any work' a metaphor?
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That is not a metaphor. "The snow was a dirty blanket over the parking lot" would be a metaphor. It is a figure of speech that compares two very different things- snow and a blanket.
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