[hassanka]

Hello dear native speakers of English. I am not a native speaker of your beautiful language and I am writing my thesis on the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE CONTAINERS. It might seem complicated, but in fact is really simple. I am just looking for some linguistic expressions (phrases, sayings etc.) which would prove that this metaphor is present in English. I think the easiest example is an expression "I feel empty inside". People cannot be phisically empty and therefore we call it metaphor. I need more of such sentences/words. Below there is a list of these that I have already found:
1. to feel empty inside (people are not empty inside, containers can be)
2. to be full of energy (people cannot be full of something)
3. to be drained (if you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, but in this case it means tired)
4. to be drawn (draw - to take something out of a container or your pocket, drawn - tired, but I don't know if there is a connection between these two)
5. to replenish yourself (as replenish minerals)
6. to take sth out of somebody (to get some information from this person)
7. to take in (=understand, like taking sth in a bag)
8. to take sb out of themselves (help them to distance themselves from thinking about bad things)
9. to get out of oneself (get angry, lose control)
10. she could no longer contain her anger
11. to go back to shape, out of shape (can container do this?)
12. unload (tell sb about your worries; in comparison with to remove the contents of something)
13. to be open
14. sth is beyond me
15. to get sth into your head
16. from the bottom of my heart
17. in the back of your mind
18. keep sth in mind
19. get sth out of your mind
I would be really grateful if you could spend some time and either chceck if the expressions found by me are correct or come up with new ones. Help, please!

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(Original post by hassanka)
Hello dear native speakers of English. I am not a native speaker of your beautiful language and I am writing my thesis on the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE CONTAINERS. It might seem complicated, but in fact is really simple. I am just looking for some linguistic expressions (phrases, sayings etc.) which would prove that this metaphor is present in English. I think the easiest example is an expression "I feel empty inside". People cannot be phisically empty and therefore we call it metaphor. I need more of such sentences/words. Below there is a list of these that I have already found:
1. to feel empty inside (people are not empty inside, containers can be)
2. to be full of energy (people cannot be full of something)
3. to be drained (if you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, but in this case it means tired)
4. to be drawn (draw - to take something out of a container or your pocket, drawn - tired, but I don't know if there is a connection between these two)
5. to replenish yourself (as replenish minerals)
6. to take sth out of somebody (to get some information from this person)
7. to take in (=understand, like taking sth in a bag)
8. to take sb out of themselves (help them to distance themselves from thinking about bad things)
9. to get out of oneself (get angry, lose control)
10. she could no longer contain her anger
11. to go back to shape, out of shape (can container do this?)
12. unload (tell sb about your worries; in comparison with to remove the contents of something)
13. to be open
14. sth is beyond me
15. to get sth into your head
16. from the bottom of my heart
17. in the back of your mind
18. keep sth in mind
19. get sth out of your mind
I would be really grateful if you could spend some time and either chceck if the expressions found by me are correct or come up with new ones. Help, please!

I assume you are already familiar with the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff; if not, then read their work as it will give you plenty of good examples of how we use metaphors spatially.

Something you might also want to consider is agent metaphors; inanimate objects are given living properties. It might add to your work somewhat.