They reflect only the opinions of their originators. Mother Mouse gave very careful instructions to her babies before the great trip across the kitchen floor. Although all the baby mice tip-toed and didn't say a word, the cat woke up and charged at the mice with its claws out and teeth ready to tear at the frightened little mice to pieces. Her barking was perfect and the cat ran away terrified. A student was told to write an essay in Spanish about his dog.
All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. Churchill 1874-1965 England and America are two countries separated by a common language. G.B. Shaw God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from the other animals, as by the faculty of speech.