@punishmenthurts @hauchvonstaub @actuallyautistic Yes: "literal" meanings are usually old references to something. I did have the problem in school literature classes that "metaphors" were only specific approved memes, not every literal metaphor.
Seeing "the upper hand", I see so many both literal and figurative movie scenes of someone falling but being held by another. Sometimes the upper hand is literally a set of paws. And the words for a hand might be metaphors for reaching or gaining.
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