an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
conceits
devicesanalogies, circumlocutions, code words, cranks, dead metaphors, euphemisms, similescatachreses, mixed metaphors
figures of speech
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