Use As A Metaphor
The term is also used figuratively to describe something as sharp or piercing, and also to describe the twisting, boring motion of using a gimlet. The term gimlet-eyed can mean sharp-eyed or squint-eyed (one example of this use is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, who was known as "Old Gimlet Eye").
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“A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)