Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet.""Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally.""I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.