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In replying It is nothing to Andrey, the Count was not simply resorting to a Gallic figure of speech.† (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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Just a figure of speech.† (source)
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"That," I snarled at him, "was a figure of speech.† (source)
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The phrase "bite my head off" was not entirely a figure of speech when it came to Leah.† (source)
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"A metaphor, or simply a figure of speech?" he says, also frowning.† (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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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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That is not a figure of speech.† (source)
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It's just a figure of speech.† (source)
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I know you know where my daughter is, and you best be telling me before you hang up that phone, or I'll skin you alive, and that ain't just a figure of speech.† (source)
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—THE AVETT BROTHERS, "SLIGHT FIGURE OF SPEECH"† (source)
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'You've used the word commando several times, I assume not as 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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It's just a figure of speech.† (source)
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It's just a figure of speech.† (source)
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