 Many have observed that the obvious falsity of what speakers say may signal that they mean something else, but it does not tell us what else they mean (e.g., Levinson 1983: 157–8; Lepore &amp; Stone 2015: 38–9). Indeed, metaphor is another case in which Grice (1975: 34) takes the speaker to be flouting  Quality.[40]  So the flouting of Quality does not tell us which figure of speech Don is using. He would have made a suitable contribution to the conversation if he had been engaging in metaphor instead of irony, meaning and believing that relations between he and his partner (the “weather” in the cabin) are fine.