"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The problem there is that people become inured to the repetition of mere figures.
- Long before that, the king had become a mere symbolic figure, remaining respected and untouchable, but having only nominal authority.
- The latter remark, by the way, is no mere figure of speech.
- The term "luck of the draw" is no mere figure of speech.
- Now that she was actually talking to two of them, they no longer seemed like mere historical figures.
- It is a mere rhetorical figure-- what they call in the books, hyperbole.
- There was something sinister and menacing in the mere figures.
- To say that I saw this stage of the battle is but a mere figure of speech.
- To a Klingon, "die laughing" was not a mere figure of speech.
- It was as though the walls of that strange corridor had spoken, with the man in black a mere figure in their midst.
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