metaphoric?

Yes twyngwyn.

 

Minced meat and a soft, but garbled glee club are emblematic.

(10 letters)

 

Minced - anagram indicator

Meat - (minced) = Meta

and a soft - p

but garbled - anagram indicator

glee club - choir (garbled) = horic

are emblematic - Meta-p-horic

 

Metaphoric

dire straits opposed laugh little brother, I heard (6)

Crisis...?

Back to you nfs

The apron is in the bush for one year.

(9 letters)

Forestage..?

Yes twyngwyn.

guard injection taken for proof (10)