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figure of speechphrase a sequence of words having a specific meaning"The straw that broke the camel's back" is just a figure of speech, as there's not really a straw and not really a camel. expression, idiom, phrase cliché(also cliche)locution, termepithet, expletive, namebyword, cry, motto, shibboleth, slogan, watchwordarchaism, colloquialism, euphemism, modernism, neologism, provincialism, vulgarism in 1751 |