the original are regarded as the product from the inspired thought of the men full of wits and knowledge,and can hardly be seen before,let along have been recorded in dictionary.A Promise of Spring by American modern writer Jeff.Rennike begins in this way:
(20) Nothing,no tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow,white as birch bark,that fell during the night,no flittering shadows in the trees,not a silver of bird song in the air.[12]P47
The word ‘stitch’ belongs to those that are rarely used in English and its most impressive usage is in the idiom ‘A stitch in time saves night’.While floated out of the pen of Jeff Rennike,it was shining with the beauty of the original metaphor.
the recently created metaphors which have not yet been adopted in the dictionary but can be accepted by the common people with a feeling of refreshness.
eg：(17) I focused on a small blob in the mud amid the columns of legs and trunks.
(18) I suddenly came upon a wall of feeling elephants.
(19)…grabbed their lost baby and tugged her gently into a stockade of legs
In the above three sentences,‘columns’ and ‘wall’,‘stockade’,have double functions.They function as the measure words with the metaphorical meanings,which has not yet been adopted in any dictionary.However,three metaphors have a common characteristic -- they belong to the structure Pattern II (the preposition ‘of’ links between the image and the object which has been recorded in the dictionary,such as ‘a hand of bananas’).