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Meanings of figurative expression in English

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Usage of figurative expression in English
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A figurative expression, a striking simile, made the most difficult thoughts intelligible.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Few writers of English prose have such command of figurative expression.
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
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With this figurative expression Mattha settled himself for the drive.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
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Have you ever thought of the quaint absurdity of this figurative expression?]
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
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Making some allowance for a figurative expression, I will answer 'it may be so.'
The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
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Walled up to the sky... A figurative expression, signifying the walls to be very high.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete / The Challoner Revision
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Until now, spending time in the dog-house was just a figurative expression popular with married men.
The Irish Times
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Select any figurative expression and give its meaning.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature
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That is only, I suppose, a figurative expression.
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
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But Joe did not understand this figurative expression.
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
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MUSCA] A figurative expression, meaning 'the slightest sign'.
Selections from Erasmus: Principally from his Epistles
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Smelled, etc... A figurative expression, denoting that God was well pleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete / The Challoner Revision
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Bute, however, to use a figurative expression, proudly bared his head to the tempest which was playing around him.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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Lines like the following show the vigorous flow of the verse, the love for lonely scenery, and a wealth of figurative expression:-
Halleck's New English Literature
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Not just a figurative expression The figure of speech "a broken heart" has long been at the centre of human attention.
Jamaica Observer
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Third: It is by no means a figurative expression, for if this were true there would be no comfort in it to God's children.
And Judas Iscariot / Together with other evangelistic addresses
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