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What metaphors are used in Saved by Edward Bond?

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"This'll put 'airs on yer chest" (Metaphor)

In the first scene, Len feeds sweets to Pam and tickles her, saying that it'll "put hair on her chest," a joking metaphor about how she has to endure his advances. It is ultimately a kind of sexual metaphor about Len getting Pam to submit to him.