Why is “claws” called an explicit metaphor in one account attributed to al-Sakkaki?

Imaginative and Implicit Metaphor, Reinforcement, and Critiques of al-Sakkaki

• Claws retains its literal sense and only attribution is figurative
• It must be analyzed as composite metaphor
• The word for real claws denotes an imagined claw-like form
• Death is treated as a conventionally assigned synonym of lion