What is a metaphor for causation?

What is a metaphor for causation?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in English in which causation (including creation) is represented in terms of emergence from or entrance into a container.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of metaphors for causation:
	What is a causation-as-emergence-from-state metaphor? What is a creation-as-birth metaphor? What is an object-as-coming-out-of-substance metaphor? What is a substance-as-going-into-object metaphor?

Generic
	Conventional metaphors in English

Context for this page:

Concept module: metaphor for causation
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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