Consider the fact that this metaphorical person might bike or walk to work, eliminating the financial liability of a car.

While there, may as well ask if they have anyone that specializes in these, the metaphor here being that if you need knee surgery then you don't need a general practitioner doctor or a cancer doctor or a brain surgery doctor, you need a doctor that's a joint surgeon.

To stretch that metaphor, this thread is about cases where a car is continuing to have mechanical issues for no obvious reason.

To make a metaphor by quoting lyrics of the band Nirvana, "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you."  

Everyone and their brother is now an "investor".....deals are as abundant as (insert cheeky metaphor here)...

I think she senses I'm new, so she's metaphorically pushing me around.

Just in case, I'll elaborate a bit more.Continuing with the metaphor of the "bucket" and "filler,"  when using these accounts for real estate, it's just a matter of swapping out mutual funds for another asset - the "bucket" remains the same.

burned at the stake" and "if it walks like a duck" would imply that you're calling me a witch, but I'm guessing you might be mixing your metaphors, teach...Are you implying that I'm a witch?

Snake oil if you ask me...smoke and mirrors...house of cards waiting to collapse and every other metaphor.

Risking his life and liberty to expose government corruption and waste and providing some political transparency where it's sorely needed...I don't believe that all the government's secrets need to be made public (clearly this will threaten our national security), but by the same token, allowing the government to hide information just to protect themselves from well-deserved scrutiny goes against what this country stands for.If the government was doing it's job, sites like Wikileaks wouldn't be needed...but unfortunately, they're not doing their job (at least not well)...Funny how the government likes to put citizens through x-ray machines but when some tries to (metaphorically) do the same thing to the government, he becomes an "enemy of the state"...