In explaining the intelligibility of metaphor, the vital thing to be explained is the transferring relation—how we, with the contextual clues, transfer the semantic property of an object or expression in a metaphorical sentence into a suitable one to arrive at the metaphorical content. Yet, Josef Stern proffers the Mthat account to analyze the underlying structure of understanding metaphor, contrary to those appealing to the analyses of the entry of expressions. Through reviewing Stern’s own Mthat account and his criticism of contextualism in philosophy of language, I point out that his Mthat hardly succeeds in explaining the intelligibility of metaphor without investigating into the transferring relation.