Metaphor-a-Minute!

Uh, blame @tinysubversions for this one. (Actually one metaphor every two minutes. Twitter rate limits.)

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a Mendelism is a gooseberry: postbailout and uplandish

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an emery is a gavotte: Aeginetan, amphicoelian

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a thunderbolt is an uvula: charitable and outre

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a dustpan is a limelight: embarrasing and stablest

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a stumbler is a subtlety: classicistic and cornpone

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a clean-up is a physiognomy: heroical and overemotional

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a musculus is a splicer: moralless, and singsong

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an electrician is a phraseology: distracted, yet mightest

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a snowplow is a teaspoonful: enantioselective, and non-empty

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a nonny is a plethora: anticonstitutional and crosslinguistic

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a Lanier is a nidus: homeliest and photocatalytic

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a safekeeping is a timeline: furriest and libidinal

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a dignitary is a liegeman: colorific and monocotyledonous

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a dorado is a half-sister: histomorphometric, yet world-shattering

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a marquise is a mobocracy: adult, and unshaven

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an elasticity is a ventilation: fimbriate and olive-brown

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an archway is a switchman: discouraged, tongue-obsessed

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a footbridge is a meniscus: Newfie yet extracontinental

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a defection is a nephew: loved-up and trophic

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an tongue is a mending: chicken-breasted and first-place