Then he fell off his pedestal (in a literal and metaphorical sense), chipping his cloak.

In this metaphorical sense, people only ever go up the path, never down it or across it.

By 2006 the robo-monster was huge - not only in the metaphorical sense of its impact, but also literally, physically, in its overwhelming mass.

Is golf uniquely cruel, in that metaphorical sense?

But the word quickly gained the metaphorical sense of 'hungry for intellectual sustenance, thin, insipid'.