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I'm looking for well known metaphors used for the state in the grand sense of human society. What I've come up with so far is: Ship of state. Body politic. Social contract. The leviathan. (Thank you, Hobbes.)



That's a pretty short list. Am I forgetting any significant idiomatic metaphors of this kind?






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    I'm looking for well known metaphors used for the state in the grand sense of human society. What I've come up with so far is: Ship of state. Body politic. Social contract. The leviathan. (Thank you, Hobbes.)



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      I'm looking for well known metaphors used for the state in the grand sense of human society. What I've come up with so far is: Ship of state. Body politic. Social contract. The leviathan. (Thank you, Hobbes.)



      That's a pretty short list. Am I forgetting any significant idiomatic metaphors of this kind?






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      I'm looking for well known metaphors used for the state in the grand sense of human society. What I've come up with so far is: Ship of state. Body politic. Social contract. The leviathan. (Thank you, Hobbes.)



      That's a pretty short list. Am I forgetting any significant idiomatic metaphors of this kind?






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