22 Metaphors for juan

The Greeks had not the name of Don Juan, yet Don Juan was their ideal both for men and for the gods they made in the image of man.

Scholars disagree as to whether the Juan-juan were Turks or Mongols; European investigators believe them to have been identical with the Avars who appeared in the Near East in 558 and later in Europe, and are inclined, on the strength of a few vestiges of their language, to regard them as Mongols.

[Footnote B: "Don Juan was my Moscow, and Faliero My Leipsic, and my Mont St. Jean seems Cain," Don Juan, Canto.

San Juan is a perfect specimen of a walled town, with portcullis, moat, gates, and battlements.

Juan was a pest and Casey thought malevolently how he would kill him when the job was finished.

Juan was lazy, Juan was a fool, and his mother never tired of scolding him and emphasizing her words by a beating.

Juan was a farmer, a farmer so poor that he had only one shirt and one pair of trousers.

So St. Peter opened the gate just the least bit, but Juan was not satisfied, so he said, "Good St. Peter, open the gate just a little wider for me to see with both eyes."

So they stayed on for a long time until Juan was a young man and Maria a young woman.

Quickly they agreed that Juan was head of the house, and he ordered the beating to stop.

They were very good to her, for, said they, "Don Juan is not only king of the animals but of the giants and monsters of every kind.

Don Juan was the sole fruit of this late love.

SAN JUAN (125), a mountainous province of the Argentine Republic, on the Chilian border; is rich in metals, but, save coal, not worked; agriculture is the chief industry.

So they stayed on for a long time until Juan was a young man and Maria a young woman.

San Juan (12), on a river of the same name, is the capital, lies 98 m. N. of Mendoza; has public baths, a bull-ring, library, &c.; exports cattle and fodder, chiefly to Chile.

Don Juan (1819-1824), a long poem in sixteen cantos, is Byron's greatest work.

Juan and Maria were orphans.

Don Juan, more than any of its precursors, is Byron, and it has been similarly handled.

San Juan is a community in itself.

Don Juan is emphatically the poem of intelligent men of middle age, who have grown weary of mere sentiment, and yet retain enough of sympathetic feeling to desire at times to recall it.

Don Juan, though morally the worst, is intellectually the most vital and representative of Byron's poems.

Don Juan is a scathing satire upon society.

22 Metaphors for  juan