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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 ;

      [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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