In compound figurative usage, correspondence means that the sense of the utterance as a whole is deployed in relation to another complete situation. One need not establish a separate figurative sense for each constituent word.
Original image: a person moves toward a goal but also draws back.
Second image: a person attempts to decide but is restrained by uncertainty or apprehension.
The words continue to present the first coherent picture, yet their communicative application concerns the second. What is transferred is a whole meaningful configuration, not a sequence of unconnected lexical replacements.