A subcorpus of journalistic texts taken from the 'Corpus de referencia del español actual' ([Reference Corpus of Present-Day Spanish] Spanish Royal Academy, www.rae.es/creanet.htm, 2005) is analyzed in the framework of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's (1980) theory of metaphor to investigate the use of 36 Spanish words and expressions related to bullfighting as a metaphor for Spanish politics. Three categories of terms are delineated: those describing persons as bullfighters; four terms directly related to bulls, including 'toro' (bull); and a variety of terms designating actions during a bullfight, elements of the course of a bullfight, and the bullfighting arena. Politicians are depicted as bullfighters and their opponents as bulls, and political acts are described as events during a bullfight; not only politics but Spain, its political parties, elections, and the media are equated with bullfighting arenas. Figures, References. (Adapted from the source document) (LLBA, (c) CSA [2007]. All rights reserved.)