«إِنِّي أَرَاكَ تُقَدِّمُ رِجْلًا وَتُؤَخِّرُ أُخْرَى»
“I see you putting one foot forward and drawing the other back.”
The construction may describe someone wavering between undertaking an action and holding back. Actual movement of feet is not intended; the whole bodily scene depicts an indecisive state of mind.
In the source, two contrary physical movements coexist. In the target, inclination to act and reluctance to act compete. This shared pattern establishes the composite resemblance.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
«إِنِّي أَرَاكَ تُقَدِّمُ رِجْلًا وَتُؤَخِّرُ أُخْرَى»
“I see you putting one foot forward and drawing the other back.”
The construction may describe someone wavering between undertaking an action and holding back. Actual movement of feet is not intended; the whole bodily scene depicts an indecisive state of mind.
In the source, two contrary physical movements coexist. In the target, inclination to act and reluctance to act compete. This shared pattern establishes the composite resemblance.