"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former tenement; this tenement was a cavity on the right side of the head, intended to be filled with brains as well as the left; but nature was either in haste when she finished off this precious piece of earthen ware; or thought that one side held a sufficient quantity for any use she could put them to, and therefore left the right side quite empty; which accounts for madam's having more choler than her judgment could guide."
— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Metaphor
"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former tenement; this tenement was a cavity on the right side of the head, intended to be filled with brains as well as the left; but nature was either in haste when she finished off this precious piece of earthen ware; or thought that one side held a sufficient quantity for any use she could put them to, and therefore left the right side quite empty; which accounts for madam's having more choler than her judgment could guide."
Metaphor in Context
By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former tenement; this tenement was a cavity on the right side of the head, intended to be filled with brains as well as the left; but nature was either in haste when she finished off this precious piece of earthen ware; or thought that one side held a sufficient quantity for any use she could put them to, and therefore left the right side quite empty; which accounts for madam's having more choler than her judgment could guide.
These vapours, I say, having ascended again, and taken possession of their ancient post, madam instantly resumed her old stile:--diamond stars for coach-horses! might fine indeed! and you expect such thing as this should be kept a secret, do you? [...]
(I.x, pp. 89-90)
