Despite continued discussion concerning methodology and the omnipresence of the phenomenon, two and a half decades of cognitively informed studies of metaphor seem to have convinced most researchers within the fields of human sense-making that metaphor exists as a real "cognitive" phenomenon. This volume continues, expands, and strengthens the "tradition" of cognitively informed studies of metaphor by demonstrating how the study of gesture adds further substance to and further means of gaining insight into the phenomenon. In this paper we will briefly discuss what consequences the type of research presented in this volume and its results may have for Ethnomethodology (EM) and Conversation Analysis (CA) studies as well as the consequences that EM/CA studies of metaphors constructed, and gestures employed, in interaction may have for cognitive studies hereof. In addition and in relation hereto the paper very briefly introduces an approach that aims at uniting empirical research in interaction and the "cognitive" and "psychological" aspects of sense-making. (Anders Hougaard and Gitte Hougaard)