Summarising the use of sports expressions in our jobs and general lives
To summarise:
- Sporting expressions are used in a metaphorical sense in many aspects of our lives.
- Sporting expressions are used to add a dynamic element to the situation which we are describing.
- There are various types of sport, like team sports or ball games (sometimes, team sports are also ball games), which we talk about metaphorically to describe our life situations. We also talk about racing and combat sports to animate our everyday situations.