an or a hyperbole - WordReference Forums
2015年1月13日 · In fact, there's actually just one, but people sometimes make it much harder than it really is: Consonant sounds get a, vowel sounds get an. That's it - that's the entire rule. The only reason hyperbole is questionable at all is that "h" can be kind of tricky since in some words it's pronounced and in others it's silent.
I'm freezing - metaphor or hyperbole or both? - WordReference …
2015年12月27日 · South of England, UK. British English. Dec 16, 2010. #5. catlady60 said: "I'm freezing" is hyperbole which means, "I'm very cold." Yes but she doesn't say "I'm freezing" she says "it" is freezing. I believe that without further context we cannot tell whether there is a metaphor. When she says "It is freezing."
Hyperbole - more than just exaggeration? - WordReference Forums
2010年7月26日 · Here's a definition from MW for hyperbole: : extravagant exaggeration that represents something as much greater or less, better or worse, or more intense than it really is or that depicts the impossible as actual (as "mile-high ice-cream cones") -- opposed to litotes
He’s not usually given to hyperbole. | WordReference Forums
2016年3月3日 · in the example sentence for hyperbole in Oxford learners dictionary . Thanks for the answers in advance. A.
so hungry that I can eat a horse | WordReference Forums
Jul 14, 2008. #5. The phrase "hungry enough to eat a horse" is a common overstatement. I have always heard it as a hypothetical, never as an assertion of truth, a real possibility, or a real event. It is always something which could happen, but is not really taken seriously. It is always posed as a hypothetical. I was so hungry that I ate a horse.
Mouth on the floor | WordReference Forums
2013年7月31日 · My guess is that "mouths were on the floor" means "People (at home) were very surprised that they'd escaped." More common ways to phrase this idiom are "Jaws were on the floor" or "Their jaws dropped to the floor," both of which are hyperbole that mean their mouths were opened so wide in surprise that their jaws were on the floor. M.
To help matters - WordReference Forums
2010年11月9日 · Senior Member. español (España) Nov 9, 2010. #1. I have a problem with the expression TO HELP MATTERS in this sentence. The candidates themselves have not helped matters with their unfailing doses of generalities and hyperbole. I have no idea what does it can mean, so, if you could hepl me, I'll be very pelased.
I've died a million times for you | WordReference Forums
Russia. Russian. Apr 29, 2016. #1. When he says "I've died a million times for you" does he mean that he "felt bad because of you"? Or maybe "die for" does mean "strongly wished for"? (you're dying for a cup of tea) I've died a million times for you. And like a leech you suck from me. the hope, the strength left in me.
Batting a thousand - WordReference Forums
Apr 7, 2022. #2. To me it’s used as a hyperbole. In a positive way it means you’re succeeding again and again. Way to go! But very, very often it’s used ironically to mean you’re/I’m missing every shot, getting one thing after another wrong. Last edited by a moderator: Apr 8, 2022.
"there's a steel knife in my windpipe" - WordReference Forums
Nov 4, 2014. #3. "there's a steel knife in my windpipe" is a metaphor, describing the imagined feeling of a knife in your windpipe as a metaphor for the actual feeling in your windpipe. To say "it was like having/as If I had/the same as a steel knife in my windpipe." would be a simile, because it directly comparative and uses the word like/as ...