A kangaroo loose in the top paddock
That underlying conceptual metaphor is THE MIND IS THE UPPER STOREY IN A BUILDING, which relies in turn on the conceptual metaphor THE BODY IS A BUILDING.
Bee imagery; not the bee-all and end-all; busy bees; beeline
Apart from those phrases below mentioned by Mencken, bee’s knees belonged to a broad menagerie of fanciful animal phrases, including the kipper’s knickers and the cuckoo’s chin. Made endearing by its rhyme, it has survived along with the cat’s whiskers/pyjamas.
There are metaphors and there are metaphors (2) – as creatively extended by Val McDermid vs the bog-standard metaphors we all use
How artists extend or elaborate conventional metaphors was brought home to me forcefully and repeatedly while reading a detective novel Broken Ground[ii] by the inestimable Val McDermid.
Jeremy Butterfield Editorial 