Carpentry and Woodworking
collection agent:metaphorex-prospector (2026) · source
Survey of carpentry and woodworking terminology that has migrated into everyday English as dead or dying metaphors. Includes joint types (dovetail, mortise-and-tenon), process terms (seasoning, planing), and craft wisdom (measure twice, let the tool do the work).
Entries (18)
- Against the Grain — metaphor
- Best Carpenters Make the Fewest Chips — mental-model
- Dovetail — metaphor
- Framework — metaphor
- Green Wood — metaphor
- Jig — metaphor
- Knock-Down Joint — metaphor
- Knotty Problem — metaphor
- Let the Tool Do the Work — mental-model
- Plane It Smooth — metaphor
- Polished — metaphor
- Read the Grain — metaphor
- Rough Around the Edges — metaphor
- Seasoning — metaphor
- Shim — metaphor
- Tongue and Groove — metaphor
- Wabi-Sabi in Woodwork — paradigm
- You Can Always Take More Off, But You Can't Put It Back On — mental-model