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Meanings of mere figure in English

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Usage of mere figure in English
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This keeping of distance was no mere figure of speech for her.
East of the sun
2
That is no mere figure of speech: it is an actual truth.
Sermons on National Subjects
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These reinforcements of ours have proved no mere figure of speech.
Preventable Diseases
4
This is no mere figure of speech; it is fact.
The Conquest of Fear
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But his remark was not a mere figure of speech.
Reuters
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We are mere figure-heads upon a hulk, with livers in the place of hearts.
A Plea for Captain John Brown / Read to the citizens of Concord,...
7
So, to hold commerce with the dead is not a mere figure of speech.
Friendship
8
A mere figure for the front page of illustrated papers.'
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
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Perhaps calling her partner had been a sop to her, a mere figure of speech.
Career of Evil
10
That's a mere figure of speech, just as one says, 'I'll blow your brains out.'
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
11
And that was no mere figure of speech.
The Irish Times
12
But you know as well as I do that that is a mere figure of speech.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
13
There should be no mere figure-heads or machinery.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
The Communist Manifesto
15
It was no mere figure of speech.
Seveneves
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It was a mere figure of speech.
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College
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