In his metaphorical example he proposes to pay the seller a higher price, in exchange for a lower interest rate.

However, I'm on my second glass of wine and haven't much better to do.I see the guitar as a metaphor for freedom, which seems to be squelched by those currently in power.

Tanner, don't sweat it , Just go to local networking , host you own and meet people naturally , little by little you will make good friends and colleague and that will help you create ( the band ) "metaphorically speaking) ..Just be out more and you will see how you going to be attracting people your way.. 

Instead of waiting around until we settle somewhere, I thought flipping might be a way to get our feet wet in Real Estate and quit sitting on the sidelines (sorry for my mixed metaphors).  

Now that I am preparing to "turn up" the metaphor "heat" on my new real estate investing career, I have heard a little of this and  little of that about qualified retirement plans (QRPs).

The rocket metaphor also helped:)

But I think the truck metaphor is apt.

A "golden handcuff" is a good metaphor I heard for that. 

(Gender and age are not actually PMI factors, that was a metaphor borrowed from a type of insurance wherein age and gender discrimination is allowed.

I feel like a lot of these apps can have sync issues until they get tweaked by support, after which they hum along smoothly (I had a similar issue at first with YourPorter when it wouldn't detect new bookings, but they gave it a metaphorical swift kick and it's been fine since then).