Abstract: This article reviews a number of works, titles of which contain intertextual references to G. Lakoff and M. Johnson’s well-known book on metaphors. The authors both introduce various cognitive researches of theoretical and practical value to readers and analyse five types of intertextual transformations of the precedent title “Metaphors We Live by”: 1) noun-transformation; 2) pronoun-transformation; 3) verb-transformation; 4) preposition-transformation; 5) expansion