figure of speech Quotes

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

When someone uses 'low eight figures,' that means barely eight figures.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.