... figure of speech popularly applied to soldiers' dream girls? Who gives what who gives in a thrice? If two's company, what's throe? Sonja Hcnie suggests below what figure of speech about persons who don't put their feet on the ground ...
... figure-of-speech phrases, already stretched beyond their literal sense to suggest a picture, are grabbed back from ... speech"part — smack onto an. image — the "figure" part — and then further ground it in literalness by ...
... figure of speech • dance step • melody Trope means figure of speech, as in, "Oxymoron, one of the. language's great tropes, is on the ropes." From Greek tropos, meaning "turn or figure of speech." When Bobby Kennedy labeled a Republican ...
... FIGURE OF SPEECH Muggeridgc told Wallace that he used the phrase in an article in the Saturday Evening Post to explain that '"a popular mon-. archy . . , has to be put over a popular way." "It was a figure of speech," he addqd. The title ...
... figure of speech when he sends word to King Hezekiah of Judah not to trust in Egypt for help against him. "Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hands, and pierce it: so ...
... figure of speech; merely a figure of speech. boro (N. C.) News. "Couple married nt tho top of the Wnshington Monument." They probably wanted to start llfo together on tho snmo level with living costs — Just a little below tho peak ...
... figure of speech'?" "Where's vonr onr mother?" asked "Dad." cautiously. "She's es downstairs," answered the boy. "TVell, ell, then," began "I>ad," "n figure of speech, ch, my son, is a woman."— Harper's Weekly. —There are many men so ...
... figure of speech on an emergency and are so framed that they can, at any moment Step from their frames. They should be seen by all who can appreciate art and nature com bined. THE KELLER TKOFPE. — Every rational being is fond of ...
Fine Figure Of Speech. LONDON i CP)— Similes are being strewn all over the place In the British general election campaign. The politicians, you m . t say, are cutting a fine figure of speech. Consider the case of the ladder and the queue ...
... Figure of speech 27 Get up 28 Flowed. 2 Can prov. 3 pitching great Hubboll 4 Osiris' crown S Soak 6 Yearned 7 Pound or Frost B Commercials 9 Reverse movement 10 Game rings 11 Author Leon 12Flre:prel. Flre:prel. 13 Dog and cat 18 Dressed ...