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metaphor Etymology Atlas
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity, The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used. Pro
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