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[Noun phrase] | "figure of speech"
1: a form of expression (such as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener
Origin: 1551 ;
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[Phrase] | "figure of speech"
1: a sequence of words having a specific meaning;
* e.g., " ... "The straw that broke the camel's back" is just a figure of speech, as there's not really a straw and not really a camel. "
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[ "figures of speech" ]
1: A word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage.
* e.g., ... Figures of speech: "Calling her a crab was just a figure of speech... But she has literal crabs."
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