All 9 Uses of
literally
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- Once I start thinking about splitting the skin apart, I literally cannot not do it.
p. 6..2literally = actually (not an exaggeration)
- ....but you're actually thinking about how cows literally could not survive if it weren't for the bacteria in their guts, and...
p. 42..6 *
- "You don't have C. cliff:"
I nodded, but she wasn't a gastroenterologist, and anyway, I literally knew more about C. diff than she did.
p. 91..2
- "There is literally no such thing," she answered.
p. 115..3
- I smiled—it was an inside joke that literally no one else would get.
p. 136..9
- Just how his tongue has its own particular microbiome and once he sticks his tongue in my mouth his bacteria become part of my microbiome for literally the rest of my life.
p. 164..2
- Her mouth literally moved with each line of dialogue.
p. 198..3
- But it's not even about dying, really—like, if I knew I was dying, and I kissed you good-bye, literally my last thought wouldn't be about the fact that I was dying; it would be about the eighty million microbes that we'd just exchanged.
p. 253..1
- Like, literally underground.
p. 256..1
Definition:
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(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)