Is this a metaphor??

Question

Is this phrase a metaphor?

"come and cut your heart out".

Here is the entire quote.

“There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never them before in my life” (16)!

Answer 1

no. no comparison here.

Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, meaning "transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.

Answer 2

This is just a statement....it doesn't compare one item to another which is the definition of a metaphor.

Answer 3

No, that's not a metaphor.

A metaphr is a comparision between two things and the sentence does not use a LIKE or an AS. This one doesn't do any comparision, even though it doesn't use like or as!

Answer 4

no because no commparrison is in it

Answer 5

No.  A metaphor says one thing is equal to another without using the words "like" or "as."  For example, Shakespeare wrote "All the world's a stage . . ."  This is a metaphor because it says one thing (the world) is equal to another (a staage).  Your phrase does not compare one thing to another, so it cannot be a metaaphor.