# Why don't metaphorical hawks kill metaphorical doves?

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-03-why-dont-metaphorical-hawks-kill-metaphorical-doves

The piece asks why political discourse rarely extends the hawk-and-dove metaphor to hawks hunting doves.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2011

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Metaphor Hacker (metaphorhacker.net)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/why-dont-metaphorical-hawks-kill-metaphorical-doves/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 3 April 2011
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, politics, war, metaphor-analysis.

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