| Recurring theme |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Sep 2025 |
| "Girl next door," or "meet-cute," in a movie |
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| Some irony perhaps from tense painter |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Literary device |
Commuter |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Article at first cut over figure of speech |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Overused plot device |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jun 2025 |
| Figure of speech in sonnet's last line |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Recurrent theme |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Overused motif (5) |
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| Figure of speech used by disturbed poet embracing king (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
21 May 2025 |
| From the beginning the tie is a metaphor |
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| Eastern harbour looks up ___ a figure of speech (5) |
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| Literary device |
Commuter |
30 Apr 2025 |
| Figurative expression in account brought up right away (5) |
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| Figurative expression: very high note's brought about end of mirror (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Expression used figuratively by tense guy (5) |
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| Recurrent theme |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Statement lifting the lid over figure of speech |
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| Commonly recurring literary device |
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| Cliched plot device |
LA Times Daily |
30 Mar 2025 |
| Figure of speech in telegraphist's last cable |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Mar 2025 |
| Familiar theme |
LA Times Daily |
23 Mar 2025 |
| Something an unimaginative screenwriter might rely on |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Mar 2025 |
| Eastern harbour looks up - a figure of speech (5) |
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| Figure of speech; or pet (anag.) |
The Telegraph Mini |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Cinematic cliche |
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| A recurrent theme or idea |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Overused theme |
LA Times Daily |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Recurring theme |
The Times Concise |
22 Feb 2025 |
| Writing cliché |
New York Times |
16 Feb 2025 |
| There's too much French with English figure of speech (5) |
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| A record scratch followed by a freeze-frame followed by a narrator saying "Yup, that's me; you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation," e.g. |
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| Jump scare in horror movies, e.g. |
Universal |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Recurrent movie theme |
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| "Girl next door," or "meet-cute," in a movie |
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| Figure of speech in tense Hitchcock thriller |
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| Overused plot device |
USA Today |
30 Dec 2024 |
| Teacher's opening line is a figure of speech (5) |
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| Movie clich* |
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| Movie cliché |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Frequently recurring theme |
New York Times |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Figure of speech, right, in leading English (5) |
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| Overused theme |
LA Times Mini |
06 Oct 2024 |
| Overused plot device, say |
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| Cliche in fiction |
Commuter |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Figure of speech recalled statement lacking an opening |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Sep 2024 |
| Metaphor in report turning up without introduction (5) |
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| Recurrent theme lifting English city with a harbour (5) |
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| Worn-out device |
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| Clich*d plot device |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Deus ex machina or final girl, e.g. |
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| Literary device |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2024 |
| Recurrent theme; or pet (anag.) |
The Telegraph Plusword |
01 Aug 2024 |
| Figure of speech |
LA Times Daily |
01 Aug 2024 |
| Bit of a strop, easily taken as a figure of speech (5) |
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| Recurrent theme |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Figure of speech repot (anag.) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Mirror scare in a horror movie, e.g. |
USA Today |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Significant or recurrent theme (5) |
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| Reportedly shown up incorporating overused plot device (5) |
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| The idea that it was all a dream, in cinematic plot twists, e.g. |
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| Love triangle, e.g. |
USA Today |
14 May 2024 |
| Literary cliche |
Commuter |
27 Apr 2024 |
| Figure of speech used by disturbed poet embracing king (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Theme that appears repeatedly in TV or movies |
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| Familiar plot device |
LA Times Daily |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Time-warp is a figure of speech (5) |
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| Recurrent theme or motif (5) |
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| Meet-cute, for example |
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| Figure of speech, e.g. talking head, on a string (5) |
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| Cliched figure of speech |
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| Movie cliche |
Universal |
14 Mar 2024 |
| Recurring theme or idea, often overused |
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| Motif in work penned by three in Italy (5) |
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| No unknown export could be a figure of speech (5) |
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| 'End of a tight-rope' figure of speech? (5) |
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| A recurring theme or idea |
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| Movie or TV cliche |
USA Today |
24 Jan 2024 |
| Recurrent theme; toper (anag.) (5) |
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| "Girl next door," or "meet-cute," in a movie |
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| Recurring theme |
The Times Concise |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Genre convention (5) |
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| Familiar literary device |
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| Figure of speech |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Nov 2023 |
| Saying drink repelled European |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Recurrent motif |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Sep 2023 |
| Meet cute in a rom-com, e.g |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2023 |
| Recurring theme in pupil's assessment overturned without resistance |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Left to head north then east in sort of metaphor? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Aug 2023 |
| Enemies to lovers, e.g |
USA Today |
30 Jul 2023 |
| Figurative expression is right in excellent English |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Jul 2023 |
| Figure of speech |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jul 2023 |
| Familiar cliché in storytelling, like 'the love triangle' or 'the girl next door' |
New York Times |
26 Jun 2023 |
| Recurrent theme |
The Guardian Quick |
30 May 2023 |
| Figure of speech from Hamlet's closing line |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 May 2023 |
| Figurative expression |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 May 2023 |
| Familiar theme |
LA Times Daily |
31 Mar 2023 |
| Literary device |
Newsday |
12 Feb 2023 |
| A car that won't start is a common one in horror films |
New York Times |
29 Jan 2023 |
| Overused theme |
Premier Sunday |
18 Dec 2022 |
| Cinematic convention for conveying a concept |
Newsday |
17 Dec 2022 |
| Movie cliche |
USA Today |
23 Nov 2022 |
| Image capturing fish in river? On the contrary |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Sep 2022 |
| Theme from middle of Vertigo, a Hitchcock film |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Common motif |
Premier Sunday |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Busy businesswoman in a rom-com, e.g |
New York Times |
24 Jul 2022 |
| Familiar theme |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2022 |
| Recurring idea used in intro, perfect |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Jul 2022 |
| Figure of speech |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jun 2022 |
| Word or expression used in a figurative way |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 May 2022 |
| Movie cliche |
Universal |
07 Mar 2022 |
| The girl next door, for one |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2022 |
| The irony is, acting company is missing you, it's said? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Feb 2022 |
| The irony is, spectator is missing cast |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Jan 2022 |
| Meet-cute in a rom-com, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Nov 2021 |
| Recurrent theme |
Premier Sunday |
21 Nov 2021 |
| Convention of dramatists |
Newsday |
18 Sep 2021 |
| Time line an expression used figuratively |
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| Figure from writer of some reportage from the east |
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| Figurative expression |
The Washington Post |
07 Apr 2021 |
| Figurative expression |
LA Times Daily |
07 Apr 2021 |
| Figure of speech |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2021 |
| Meet-cute in a romance film, e.g |
New York Times |
11 Feb 2021 |
| Movie cliche, e.g |
Universal |
08 Feb 2021 |
| Word employed in a figurative sense |
The Guardian Speedy |
20 Dec 2020 |
| Bit of irony from drunkard moving right up |
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| Characters saying 'you'd better come see this,' e.g |
USA Today |
13 Sep 2020 |
| Cliche |
Universal |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Expression in French, too European? |
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| Recurrent theme |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Apr 2020 |
| Word or expression used in a figurative way |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Apr 2020 |
| Jump scare, for one, in horror movies |
Universal |
27 Feb 2020 |
| Figure of speech |
Family Time |
11 Nov 2019 |
| He's freed from example of one (capital punishment) |
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| Perhaps Rio brought up Ferguson's second figure of speech |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Sep 2019 |
| Primarily The Moor is a metaphor |
|
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| Poet laboured over right figure of speech |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Jul 2019 |
| Recurrent theme |
New York Times |
23 Jun 2019 |
| Cinematic convention |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Jun 2019 |
| Right about old exercises in figurative language |
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| Figure of speech |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Irony, say |
The Washington Post |
09 Mar 2019 |
| Irony, say |
LA Times Daily |
09 Mar 2019 |
| Tory or pleb? Not even a metaphor |
|
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| Irony, say |
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Cinematic convention |
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| Recurrent theme |
|
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| Artistic device |
Universal |
28 Dec 2018 |
| Figure of speech |
Universal |
04 Dec 2018 |
| Irony or hyperbole |
New York Times |
23 Sep 2018 |
| Figure of speech seen in poet's last line |
|
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| Metaphor, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Mar 2018 |
| Irony or hyperbole |
|
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| Artistic device |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Figure of speech beginning to tickle Guy? |
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| Figurative use of a word |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Oct 2017 |
| Motif left over at end of page |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Jul 2017 |
| Overused theme |
Premier Sunday |
18 Jun 2017 |
| Figure of speech |
New York Times |
05 Jun 2017 |
| Use of a word as an expression |
Family Time |
05 Feb 2017 |
| Figure of speech |
|
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| Figure of speech in English – French too, previously |
|
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| Figurative use of a word, metaphor |
Irish Times Simplex |
19 Nov 2016 |
| Literary figure of speech |
New York Times |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Overused theme |
Universal |
03 Aug 2016 |
| Figurative expression |
Universal |
30 Jul 2016 |
| Figure of speech used by reporter in write-up |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 May 2016 |
| Cliché |
The Washington Post |
06 Jan 2016 |
| Literary figure of speech |
|
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| Figurative expression |
|
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| Overused theme |
|
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| Figure of speech |
LA Times Daily |
22 Dec 2015 |
| Figure of speech |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Sep 2015 |
| Figurative use of a word |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 Jul 2015 |
| Figure of speech |
USA Today |
21 Apr 2015 |
| Against including Richards' original exercises in irony for example |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Exile, heading off, turns back, expression having special meaning |
|
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| Struggle to find time for good figure of speech |
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| Metaphor or irony, e.g. |
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| Figurative expression |
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| Figurative use of a word |
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| Hyperbole, e.g. |
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| Metaphor, e.g. |
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| Figure of speech |
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| Metaphor, for one |
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| Metaphor, e.g. |
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| Metaphor, e.g. |
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| Figurative device |
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| Figurative expression |
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| Metonymy or synecdoche, e.g. |
|
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| Overused theme |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Irony, e.g. |
|
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| Figurative use of a word |
|
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| Figurative use of a word |
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| Irony, e.g. |
|
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| Word used as an expression |
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| Figure of speech |
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| Rhetorical device |
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| Literary device |
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| Figure of speech |
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| Figure of speech |
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| Rhetorical device |
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| Metaphor, literarily |
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| Writer's device |
|
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| Irony, for example |
|
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| Metaphor, for one |
|
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| Use of a word as an expression |
|
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| Figure of speech |
|
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| Rhetoric device |
|
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| Irony, for example |
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| Metaphor e.g. |
|
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| Metaphor or irony, e.g. |
|
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| Simile, e.g. |
|
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| Rhetorical device |
|
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| Simile or metaphor |
|
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| Synecdoche, e.g. |
|
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| Literary device |
|
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| Simile or metaphor. |
|
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| Figure of speech, as irony. |
|
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| A figure of speech. |
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| Use of a word in a figurative sense. |
|
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| What 4 Down is. |
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| Topical heading. |
|
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| Metaphor or irony. |
|
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| Figure of speech: in rhetoric. |
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| Figurative use of a word. |
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| Metaphor or simile. |
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| Figurative use of words. |
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| Figurative language in general. |
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| Turning: Comb. form. |
|
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| Figurative language. |
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| Metaphor. |
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| Topical head. |
|
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| Figurative use of a word |
|
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| Figure of speech. |
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| Metaphor, e.g. |
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| Figure of speech-irony. |
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| Irony. |
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| Figure of speech, such as irony. |
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