building vocabulary

Note how BUILDING Vocabulary  is used in the following sentences

Which are the ideas that "these words" conveys in these sentences?

Let's have a drink together to cement our partnership. When I tried to find out what had happened to my tax claim, I came up against a brick wall.

Ceiling can be used to suggest a limit to something:

They put a ceiling of twenty thousand pounds on the redundancy payments. 

There is a glass ceiling for women, from rising to top positions at work.

Roof as a metaphor: 

The roof fell in on my world on the day he died. 

The colloquial phrase go through the roof has two different meanings. 

   If prices go through the roof,.........   If a person goes through the roof, .......

which one is to lose one's temper?

Hit the roof, acts similarly:

The teacher will hit the roof when she sees the mess we've made of this work. 

Which are the ideas that "tower" conveys in these sentences?

Academics are often criticised for living in their ivory towers.
Our friends were a tower of strength when our house burnt down. 
Jack towers above all his classmates although he is actually one of the youngest pupils.

We further observe that a similar rationale holds for his observation of BUILDING metaphors in POLITICS: 

American presidential inaugural speeches, since BUILDING metaphors in this corpus are also used to establish a president’s credentials as someone likeable who shares the same hopes and dreams as the voter.

 A COUNTRY IS A BUILDING, 

THE FOUNDERS OF THE COUNTRY ARE ITS BUILDERS, and 

 For example, the different mappings for 

PROBLEM IS A BUILDING and 

LIFE IS A BUILDING

  masonry bridge building experts  

 master pieces: The monuments, 

 engineers or architects

 the technical criteria

 (calculations, structural analyses, etc.) 

unit 35 Buildings in metaphors

 glass ceiling, 

tower of strength

What would these words mean?

 Source Domain: BUILDING a country

BUILDING __________________country

a- BUILDER  ?
b- CORNERSTONES ?
c- LAYING A FOUNDATION ?

KEY

COUNTRY FOREBEARS HISTORY

CREATING A COUNTRY

THE PAST HISTORY/ACHIEVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY IS ITS CORNERSTONES

Source Domain: 

BUILDING a country

a- DAMAGE TO BUILDING 

b- DESTROYERS

c- REBUILDERS 

TASK. Make a paragraph using these 3 words and some others

KEY2:

COUNTRY TAKEOVER

ENEMY 

CITIZENS/POLITICIANS

Similar with JOURNEYmetaphors.

Source Domain:  JOURNEY

MOVER 

IMPEDIMENT

GOAL

FORWARD MOTION

Target Domain:  COUNTRY

 PROGRESS

COUNTRY DIFFICULTY

 PROSPECT

DEVELOPMENT