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figure of speech
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    When Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage," he used a figure of speech to suggest that life is like a play and people act out roles.
    figure of speech = a nonliteral expression used for effect
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    Just a figure of speech.  (source)
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    It's more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.  (source)
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    In replying, "It is nothing to Andrey," the Count was not simply resorting to a Gallic figure of speech.  (source)
    figure of speech = a nonliteral expression used for effect
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    For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.  (source)
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    'Its a figure of speech!' said Nearly Headless Nick, now so annoyed his head was trembling ominously on his partially severed neck.  (source)
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    She thought it was a figure of speech until Lola twisted her shoulder to reveal, high on her arm, a long scratch.  (source)
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    "A metaphor, or simply a figure of speech?" he says, also frowning.†  (source)
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    It could have been a figure of speech: very little time before the wolves arrive.†  (source)
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    —THE AVETT BROTHERS, "SLIGHT FIGURE OF SPEECH"†  (source)
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    Just a figure of speech, dear.†  (source)
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    A figure of speech!†  (source)
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    It's just a figure of speech.†  (source)
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