EVENT STRUCTURE METAPHOR (Loc) inherited
- 1 I am in trouble
- 2 You are in danger
- 3 He's on thin ice
- 4 She's walking a tightrope
Being Harmed Is Being Forced To Move To A Harmful Location
- 1 He keeps pushing me into trouble
- 2 She throws herself into dangerous situations regularly
- 3 They're driving me over the edge
Note: in) a harmful situation. Unlike the other metaphors, it is notused to understand which situations are harmful. It takes theharmful situation as given and describes the subject's positionwith respect to the situation (this is a consequence of thestatus of this metaphor - it is really part of the EVENT STRUCTUREMETAPHOR, a more general metaphor than one about harm.)
Alan Schwartz, Jane Espenson