Definitions for "good analogy"
a bottle of juice will take longer to freeze than a bottle of water
a faucet that drips water when it is supposed to be turned off, David said
a surficial carbonate surrounding Berringer Crater in Arizona, where under hi-T and P the water within the rock was volatilzed, vaporized etc, leaving behind a dehydrated reduced sponge-like, soft carbonate matrix
Keywords:  swinger, swing
a swinger on a swing
Keywords:  orchestra, conductor
a conductor and an orchestra
Keywords:  raisin, oven, cake, baking
a raisin cake baking in the oven
Keywords:  excrement, fly, attracted
a fly being attracted to excrement
Keywords:  hopi, verbs, indian, language
an Indian language, Hopi, which has no verbs
a CPU getting spurious interrupts and that its software can't handle the interrupts correctly and return to the main thread of execution
an architectural software package that models a hotel
Keywords:  socks, pair
a pair of socks
Keywords:  anybody, airport, firewall, walk, plane
a security officer at an airport - not having a Firewall is just letting anybody walk on the plane without being checked
a layperson building a liquid fueled space rocket from printed instructions
a pressure-cooker with a clogged release valve
Keywords:  cafe, road, side
a road-side cafe
a set of simultaneous equations, if you are a math buff
Keywords:  torch, battery, powered
a battery -powered torch
Keywords:  straw, drinking
a drinking straw
an excellent way of illustrating an idea, but far too often such analogies are not accompanied by solid reasoning, data, etc
a competitive sport
a sports team who uses the regular season to prepare for the play-offs
Keywords:  shaken, tied, rope, wall, end
a rope tied to a wall at one end and shaken by a person at the other end
Keywords:  lawyer, contingency
a lawyer on contingency
Keywords:  queue, everyone, waiting, bank, finish
a bank account
a long bank queue, with everyone waiting for the person in front of them to finish
Keywords:  moral, gravity, force
a moral force of gravity
a sphere attached to a spring, with the equilibrium position of the spring corresponding to the atom at the bond length (potential well)
Keywords:  clarity, tea, cup, colored
a cup of tea - it has good clarity, but is strongly colored
Keywords:  mountain, photo, satellite, range
a satellite photo of a mountain range
a train - there are a number of carriages linked together to form the train
a professional tennis player who focuses only on the point at hand
Keywords:  smoke, heavy, thick, filled, room
a room filled with thick heavy smoke
Keywords:  dried, pot, plant
a dried up pot plant
Keywords:  portfolio, shares, company
a portfolio of company shares
Keywords:  locks, door, two
a door with two locks
Keywords:  phone, another, makes, call, person
a person who makes a phone call to another person