What is a pride-as-fluid-in-heart metaphor?

What is a pride-as-fluid-in-heart metaphor?

Definition
	A specific variety of the pride-as-fluid-in-container metaphor in which the container is the heart.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	Her heart swelled with pride. The news filled her heart with pride. Pride swelled his heart.

Generic
	A pride-as-fluid-in-heart metaphor is a kind of
	What is a pride-as-fluid-in-container metaphor?

Source
	Kovecses 1986

Context for this page:

Concept module: pride-as-fluid-in-heart metaphor
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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