شَاكِي السِّلَاحِ ... مُقْذَفٌ
Armed and strongly built: descriptive expressions discussed in the source.
Some words may be extended to a sense different from their initial assignment. To decide whether their use is metaphorical one must ask whether resemblance is intended, or whether the usage belongs to some other semantic extension.
“Zayd is like a lion” presents both members of the comparison openly. “I saw a lion shooting” transfers “lion” to a man while suppressing the ordinary noun for that person. The distinction is not simply the presence or absence of a particle; the assigned and employed senses of the key expression must be identified.