Usa "figure of speech" in una frase
figure of speech frasi di esempio
figure of speech
1. "It's a figure of speech my good man
2. It no longer was a figure of speech, but suddenly it had acquired an inescapable reality of its own
3. I will be referring to “grandma’s ashes” purely as a figure of speech
4. I realized now that he hadn’t just meant it as a figure of speech
5. “Pardon me,” said the fish, “that was a figure of speech
6. mere figure of speech
7. She beheld in the Master's face the countenance of an upright and holy man, but she mistook friendliness for commonplace familiarity, and she misinterpreted his figure of speech as a form of making advances to her
8. That was just a figure of speech,” I said
9. Here in Corinthians Paul is using "a Hebraism" (a figure of speech in their time) to tell women to have Christ over their heads to protect
10. The problem is that they are not aware of the presence of parallel universes and dimensions, so they have no way of knowing that the collapse of the Universe will cause all the other dimensions to collapse as well, and that before you know it … or maybe that's not quite the appropriate figure of speech in this context, but you get the picture … we'll end up with a singularity waiting for the next Big Bang to happen
11. 'They are,' Midge agreed, 'It was merely a figure of speech, and not a very appropriate one, I know
12. “It was a figure of speech
13. Allegory: A figure of speech; a picture of another thing
14. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest some form, or type of semblance
15. I say Farty soiled his pants that day, but that was just a figure of speech
16. does not literally have sons, this is a figure of speech and not intended to be taken
17. does not literally have sons, this is a figure of speech, and is not intended to be taken
18. And this union by the Holy Spirit personally dwelling in us is no legal fiction, no dream, or mere imagination, or figure of speech
19. Gyre of the Ether (Energy) – it’s a figure of speech, referring specifically to the movement in time
20. Upon this, the Aged—who I believe would have been blown out of his arm-chair but for holding on by the elbows—cried out exultingly, "He's fired! I heerd him!" and I nodded at the old gentleman until it is no figure of speech to declare that I absolutely could not see him
21. “No, that was a figure of speech
22. It was just a figure of speech
23. “I thought it was a figure of speech
24. And mingled with her frenzied desire to be free of Charles and safely spite their faces but heretofore it had been only a figure of speech
25. “You think that’s a figure of speech, but you wouldn’t if you’d been around when my mom died
26. It is what we call a figure of speech—speech at a high figure, as one may say
27. Tunnel vision is not just a figure of speech—it is a perceptual reality in response to stress
28. Your brain is in a chemically compromised state—you are not in your right mind, and that is not a figure of speech
29. “Praise Goddess!” said I—which I suppose the others regarded as a mere Figure of Speech, tho’ I did not
30. “Is it a figure of speech to say that you and Sergeant Boxer tricked and bullied my client until she confessed?”
31. “Kate, it’s a figure of speech
32. “Tom, it’s a figure of speech
33. ‘I’ll jump off a bridge, Daddy,’ she would say, and it didn’t seem like a figure of speech to him
34. Not fit to polish the teeth of her grandmother's cat! I must rank pretty low in the consideration of Dejah Thoris, I thought; but I could not help laughing at the strange figure of speech, so homely and in this respect so earthly
